(n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
(n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
(v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.
(v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
(v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
(3) Results indicate that xeroradiographic cassettes are significantly more difficult to use for complete-mouth radiographs than comparable conventional film packets.
(4) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
(5) The pay packet on offer presumably had something to do with it as well.
(6) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
(7) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(8) The consequences of manipulations such as varying the spacing of secondary synaptic folds or that between the release of multiple quantal packets of acetylcholine, are also presented.
(9) At the same time, for many on low pay the last several years have seen the cost of living soar as their wage packet has shrunk.
(10) On Monday, Touraine presided over a meeting of health officials from 10 countries, including Britain, in favour of plain-packet legislation.
(11) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(12) The paper adds that the earplugs, marketed as the 'Vuvu-Stop', have a label on the back of the packet which reads: 'Highly effective noise reduction.
(13) Samples made with 2 g of antibiotic per surgical packet of bone cement containing the antibiotics gentamicin, keflin, and a combination of the two were tested.
(14) The packets were removed on the 100th day of gestation, and the females were allowed to give birth in their outdoor corral.
(15) It was only after a combination of heavy taxation (price), heavy legislation (banning smoking in public places), and heavy propaganda (warnings on packets; an effective, sustained anti-smoking advertising campaign; and most crucially, education in schools) was brought to bear on a resistant tobacco industry that smoking became a pariah activity for a new generation of potential consumers, and real, lasting change took place.
(16) One mode is "autonomous shedding" whereby rods shed disc packets directly into the subretinal space.
(17) A packet of quinoa insists: “Mix with chicken stir-fry.
(18) Immunofluorescence and cryothin-section immunoelectron microscopy localized Pf HRP II to several cell compartments including the parasite cytoplasm, as concentrated "packets" in the host erythrocyte cytoplasm and at the IRBC membrane.
(19) It has to be medium-sliced, and in the waxed packet, not the plastic bag.
(20) A part-time mum working in Centrelink or Medicare faces the loss of rights that allow her to juggle work with her family life; her job security is under threat and all for a cut in her pay packet.
Placket
Definition:
(n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
(n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.
(n.) A woman's pocket.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a series of experiments involving solubility, pH, and excipient compatibility using Placket Burman experimental design, the formulation has been finalized.