(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.
Sachet
Definition:
(n.) A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
(2) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(3) A new tube feed made up from separate sachets of 1-amino acids and saccharides, and mixed with milk, has been given to five patients for a total of 49 days.
(4) Twenty patients received amoxycillin sachets 3g twice daily for three days and 21 patients received amoxycillin capsules 500 mg three times daily for seven days.
(5) Random samples of the weekly entry of bathers to a swimming pool were examined for tinea pedis and verruca before and at intervals after the supply of individual sachets of foot powder to all bathers.Over three and a half years the overall incidence of tinea pedis decreased from 8.5% to 2.1%, and in adult males it decreased from 21.5% to 6.9%.
(6) The second study (326 patients in 4 groups) compared on one hand, a CP with the single absorption of a sachet of Sennosides or 2 liters of 10% Mannitol, and on the other hand, the preoperative antibiotic treatment utilizing Neomycin or Tetracyclin over three days with a 24-hour treatment with Metronidazole.
(7) A convenient method is to use a TLD sachet in a plastic strip around a finger.
(8) The girl said she had performed “oral sex on French soldiers in exchange for a bottle of water and a sachet of cookies”, the statement from Hussein’s office said.
(9) The man handed me a sachet of yeasty smelling flakes and I sprinkled it over the ignorant maggots.
(10) Bioavailability of ibuprofen (CAS 15687-27-1) was investigated in 12 healthy volunteers who received 2 sachets of newly developed effervescent granules (Imbun), each containing 500 mg of ibuprofen lysine salt (corresponding to 292.6 mg of ibuprofen) as the test preparation and 1 sachet of commercially available granules containing 600 mg ibuprofen.
(11) Al the patients were treated with nimesulide 100 mg granular (sachets) bid for a mean period of 19 days.
(12) She went on to say she treated the dehydration, and therefore Dhu’s most concerning symptom of a racing heart rate, by making her drink two sachets of dehydration salts and two cups of water.
(13) As I tip a sachet of sweetener into my daily almond milk latte, it occurs to me I’ve discovered something new that, one day, I’m going to have to quit.
(14) Shopitize’s cashback app is currently offering £1.50 if you buy five sachets of Moma Porridge from Sainsburys and many offers allow you to buy at a wider selection of stores, such as an 80p cashback offer on a Birds Eye Spanish paella, available at Waitrose, Asda, Co-op, Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons.
(15) The Syncillin presentation for adults and schoolchildren was tablets of 750 mg each, and sachets of 125 mg or 250 mg for infants.
(16) Simple strategies were used to search SERLINE (Serials Online, National Library of Medicine), Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory and SACHET (British Library serials database).
(17) The SUR2647 combination is a sachet formulation containing free paracetamol and its N-acetyl-methionate ester (SUR2647).
(18) The only evidence it existed are dozens of sachets of malaria treatment, syringes and needles, scattered among the broken concrete.
(19) The study population used 5 different ORS sachets, the most commonly used sachet being that of the Ministry of Health (250 ml).
(20) Roxithromycin sachets of 50 mg were given to 304 infants and children, aged 2 months to 14 years, suffering from respiratory and skin infections treated in 25 hospitals in France and one in Greece.