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packet
[ pak-it ]
noun
- a small group or package of anything:
a packet of letters.
- Also called packet boat,. a small vessel that carries mail, passengers, and goods regularly on a fixed route, especially on rivers or along coasts.
- Cards. a part of a pack of cards after being cut.
- Informal. a large amount of money.
- Computers. a relatively small unit of data sent over a network:
Every email you send and web page you browse is transferred to and from your device in a series of packets.
- British Slang.
- a painful blow or beating.
- misfortune or failure.
verb (used with object)
- to bind up in a package or parcel.
packet
/ ˈpækɪt /
noun
- a small or medium-sized container of cardboard, paper, etc, often together with its contents Usual US and Canadian wordpackagepack
a packet of biscuits
- a small package; parcel
- Also calledpacket boat a boat that transports mail, passengers, goods, etc, on a fixed short route
- slang.a large sum of money
to cost a packet
- computing a unit into which a larger piece of data is broken down for more efficient transmission See also packet switching
verb
- tr to wrap up in a packet or as a packet
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Reading The Bone Clocks is like working your way through a packet of Starbursts at one go.
“A buyer can have a wrapped packet in his hand within three to 30 minutes,” she says.
A single packet of Quaker Maple and Brown Sugar instant oatmeal, though, contains a full tablespoon of sugar.
There were rumors along Broadway in the following week that Rothstein had lost a packet.
His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
Besides a few crumbs, it contained a small lump of narwhal blubber and a little packet.
This important rite was just completed, when a packet was put into Ripperda's hand from Spain.
Something influenced by his reasoning, Ripperda employed the greatest part of the day in writing a large packet for his son.
He has a packet in his possession, that will inform Louis de Montemar of the fate of his father.
A brown packet of caporal and a book of cigarette-papers—a cigarette rolled—how good it would be!
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