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pack

1  [pak]
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–noun
1. a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, esp. one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
2. a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination): a pack of cigarettes; a six-pack of beer.
3. the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.: last year's salmon pack.
4. a group of people or things: a pack of fools; a pack of lies.
5. a group of certain animals of the same kind, esp. predatory ones: a pack of wolves.
6. Hunting. a number of hounds, esp. foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
7. a complete set of playing cards, usually 52 in number; deck.
8. backpack.
9. a considerable area of pieces of floating ice driven or packed together.
10. Metalworking. a pile of metal sheets for hot-rolling together.
11. Medicine/Medical.
a. a wrapping of the body in wet or dry clothes for therapeutic purposes.
b. the cloths so used.
c. Obsolete. the state of being so wrapped.
12. Mining.
a. Also called pack wall. a rubble wall for supporting a roof.
b. any of various other roof supports of timber, timber and rubble, or rubble and wire mesh.
13. a cosmetic material, usually of a pastelike consistency, applied either to the face or to the hair and scalp: a mud pack; a beauty pack; a henna pack.
14. pac 2 (def. 1).
15. Obsolete. a plot; conspiracy.
16. Obsolete. a low or worthless person.
–verb (used with object)
17. to make into a pack or bundle.
18. to form into a group or compact mass.
19. to fill with anything compactly arranged: to pack a trunk.
20. to put into or arrange compactly in a trunk, valise, etc., as for traveling or storage: I packed a two-week supply of clothes for the trip.
21. to press or crowd together within; cram: The crowd packed the gallery.
22. to prepare for marketing by putting into containers or packages: to pack fruit for shipping.
23. to make airtight, vaportight, or watertight by stuffing: to pack the piston of a steam engine.
24. to cover or envelop with something pressed closely around.
25. to load, as with packs: We packed the mules and then set off for the lake.
26. to carry or wear, esp. as part of one's usual equipment: to pack a gun.
27. Informal. to deliver (a powerful blow, strong message, etc.): He packs a better punch than any heavyweight in years. His speech packed a powerful plea for peace.
28. to treat with a therapeutic pack.
–verb (used without object)
29. to pack goods in compact form, as for transportation or storage (often fol. by up).
30. to place clothes and personal items in a suitcase, trunk, etc., preparatory to traveling.
31. to be capable of or suitable for compact storage or packing for transportation: articles that pack well.
32. to crowd together, as persons: The audience packed into the auditorium.
33. to become compacted: Wet snow packs readily.
34. to collect into a group: The grouse began to pack.
–adjective
35. transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load: pack animals.
36. compressed into a pack; packed.
37. used in or adapted for packing: pack equipment.
38. Chiefly Scot. (of animals) tame.
—Verb phrases
39. pack in or up, to relinquish or give up; quit: One failure was no reason to pack the whole experiment in. After thirty years of touring, the violinist packed his career up and retired.
40. pack off or away,
a. to dispatch: We packed the kids off to camp for the summer.
b. to leave hastily.
—Idiom
41. pack it in,
a. to give up; abandon one's efforts: In 1972 we packed it in and moved back to Florida.
b. to cease being a nuisance.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME pak, packe < MD pac or perh. MLG pak; (v.) ME pakken < MD or MLG

Synonyms:
1. See package. 4. band, company, crew. 5. See flock 1

pack

2  [pak]
–verb (used with object)
to choose, collect, arrange, or manipulate (cards, persons, facts, etc.) so as to serve one's own purposes: to pack the deck; to pack a jury.
Origin:
1520–30; perh. var. of pact

pack

3  [pak]
–adjective
Scot. very friendly or intimate.
Origin:
1780–90; perh. special use of pack 1

pac

2  [pak]
–noun
1. Also, pack. a soft, flexible, heelless shoe worn as a liner inside a boot or overshoe.
2. shoepac.
Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; extracted from shoepac by false analysis as shoe + pac
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pac also pack   (pāk)   
n.  
  1. A moccasin or soft shoe designed to be worn inside a boot.
  2. A shoepac.

[Short for shoepac, alteration (influenced by shoe) of pidgin Delaware seppock, shoe, from Unami Delaware chípahko, shoes.]
pack 1   (pāk)   
n.  
    1. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.
    2. A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.
    3. A complete set of related items: a pack of cards.
    4. Informal A large amount; a heap: earned a pack of money.
    5. A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.
    6. A gang of people: a pack of hoodlums.
    7. An organized troop having common interests: a Cub Scout pack. See Synonyms at flock1.
    8. The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
    9. The materials so used.
    10. A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound; packing.
  2. The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.
  3. A small package containing a standard number of identical or similar items: a pack of matches.
    1. A complete set of related items: a pack of cards.
    2. Informal A large amount; a heap: earned a pack of money.
    3. A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.
    4. A gang of people: a pack of hoodlums.
    5. An organized troop having common interests: a Cub Scout pack. See Synonyms at flock1.
    6. The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
    7. The materials so used.
    8. A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound; packing.
    1. A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.
    2. A gang of people: a pack of hoodlums.
    3. An organized troop having common interests: a Cub Scout pack. See Synonyms at flock1.
    4. The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
    5. The materials so used.
    6. A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound; packing.
  6. A mass of large pieces of floating ice driven together.
  7. Medicine
    1. The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
    2. The materials so used.
    3. A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound; packing.
  8. An ice pack; an ice bag.
  9. A cosmetic paste that is applied to the skin, allowed to dry, and then rinsed off.
v.   packed, pack·ing, packs

v.   tr.
  1. To fold, roll, or combine into a bundle; wrap up.
    1. To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing: pack one's belongings.
    2. To fill up with items: pack one's trunk.
    3. To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together: managed to pack 300 students into the lecture hall.
    4. To fill up tight; cram.
    5. To wrap (a patient) in a pack.
    6. To insert a pack into a body cavity or wound.
  3. To process and put into containers in order to preserve, transport, or sell: packed the fruit in jars.
    1. To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together: managed to pack 300 students into the lecture hall.
    2. To fill up tight; cram.
    3. To wrap (a patient) in a pack.
    4. To insert a pack into a body cavity or wound.
  5. Medicine
    1. To wrap (a patient) in a pack.
    2. To insert a pack into a body cavity or wound.
  6. To wrap tightly for protection or to prevent leakage: pack a valve stem.
  7. To press together; compact firmly: packed the clay and straw into bricks.
  8. Informal To carry, deliver, or have available for action: a thug who packed a pistol; a fighter who packs a hard punch.
  9. To send unceremoniously: The parents packed both children off to bed.
  10. To constitute (a voting panel) by appointment, selection, or arrangement in such a way that it is favorable to one's purposes or point of view; rig: "In 1937 Roosevelt threatened to pack the court" (New Republic).
v.   intr.
  1. To place one's belongings in boxes or luggage for transporting or storing.
  2. To be susceptible of compact storage: Dishes pack more easily than glasses.
  3. To form lumps or masses; become compacted.

[Middle English pak, possibly of Low German origin.]
pack'a·bil'i·ty n., pack'a·ble adj.
pack 2   (pāk)   
n.  Variant of pac.
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Pack

Pack\, n. 1. (Med.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated.

2. (Rugby Football) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.

Pack and prime road or way, a pack road or bridle way.

Pack

Pack\, v. t. To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something; specif. (Hydropathy), to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.

Pack

Pack\, n. [Cf. Pact.] A pact. [Obs.] --Daniel.

Pack

Pack\, n. [Akin to D. pak, G. pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm. pak. Cf. Packet.]

1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods. --Piers Plowman.

2. [Cf. Peck, n.] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. "A pack of sorrows." "A pack of blessings." --Shak.

Note: "In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs." --McElrath.

3. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; as: (a) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. (b) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. (c) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves. (d) A shook of cask staves. (e) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. --Kane.

5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS. p?can to deceive.] A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. [Obs.] --Skelton.

Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in carrying packs.

Pack cloth, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales.

Pack horse. See Pack animal (above).

Pack ice. See def. 4, above.

Pack moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth (Anacampsis sarcitella) which, in the larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen fabrics.

Pack needle, a needle for sewing with pack thread. --Piers Plowman.

Pack saddle, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack animal. --Shak.

Pack staff, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's staff.

Pack thread, strong thread or small twine used for tying packs or parcels.

Pack train (Mil.), a troop of pack animals.

Pack

Pack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packed; p. pr. & vb. n. Packing.] [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. See Pack, n.]

1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.

Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. --Addison.

Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. --Shak.

2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. --Pope.

4. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.

The expected council was dwindling into . . . a packed assembly of Italian bishops. --Atterbury.

5. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.]

He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. --Fuller.

6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.

Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey. --Shack.

7. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.

He . . . must not die

Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. --Shak.

8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts). [Western U.S.]

9. (Hydropathy) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

10. (Mech.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

Pack

Pack\, v. i. 1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. [Eng.]

4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.

Poor Stella must pack off to town --Swift.

You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. --Tennyson.

5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. [Obs.] "Go pack with him." --Shak.

To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. "The parliament . . . presently sent him packing." --South.
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Language Translation for : pack
Spanish: fardo, bulto,
German: der Packen,
Japanese: 包み
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pack  (n.)
"bundle," c.1225, probably from a Low Ger. word (cf. M.Du. pac, pack "bundle," M.L.G. pak, M.Flem. pac, attested from 1199), originally a term of wool traders in Flanders; or possibly from O.N. pakki, all of unknown origin. It. pacco is a Du. loan word. Meaning "set of persons" (usually of a low character" is c.1300, older than sense of "group of hunting animals" (early 15c.). Extended to collective sets of playing cards (1597), floating ice (1791), cigarettes (1924), and submarines (1943). Meaning "knapsack on a frame" is attested from 1916. Pack-horse is from c.1475; packsaddle "saddle for supporting packs on the back of a mount" is from 1388 (pakke sadil). Pack of lies first attested 1763.

pack  (v.)
c.1300, "to put together in a pack," from pack (n.), possibly influenced by Anglo-Fr. empaker (1294) and M.L. paccare "pack." Some senses suggesting "make secret arrangement" are from an Elizabethan mispronunciation of pact. Sense of "to carry or convey in a pack" (1805) led to general sense of "to carry in any manner;" hence to pack heat "carry a gun," underworld slang from 1940s; "to be capable of delivering" (a punch, etc.) is from 1921.
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Main Entry: pack
Function: transitive verb
: to influence the composition of (as a political agency) so as to bring about a desired result <pack a jury>
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Main Entry: 1pack
Pronunciation: 'pak
Function: noun
1 : a container shielded with lead or mercury for holding radium in large quantitiesespecially for therapeutic application
2 a : absorbent material saturated with water or other liquid for therapeutic application to the body or a body part b : afolded square or compress of gauze or other absorbent material used especially to maintain a clear field in surgery, to plug cavities, to check bleeding by compression, or to apply medication

Main Entry: 2pack
Function: transitive verb
: to cover or surround with a pack <packed it away from the operative field with gauze packs—R. P. Parsons>; specifically : to envelop (a patient) in a wet or dry sheet or blanket
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pack (pāk)
v. packed, pack·ing, packs

  1. To fill, stuff, plug, or tampon.
  2. To enwrap or envelop the body in a sheet, blanket, or other covering.
  3. To apply a dressing or covering to a surgical site.
n.
  1. The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
  2. The materials so used.
  3. An ice pack; an ice bag.

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pack

In addition to the idioms beginning with pack, also see Joe six-pack; send someone about his or her business (packing).

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