pack

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A bundle made up and prepared to be carried

   A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.

   • The horses carried the packs across the plain.
   • We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack.
2. 2

   A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

3. 3

   A multitude.

   • a pack of lies
   • a pack of complaints
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   1. 4

      A number or quantity of connected or similar things

      A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

   2. 5

      A full set of playing cards

      • We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
   3. 6

      The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.

      • cut the pack
   4. 7

      A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

      • African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
   5. 8

      A wolfpack

      A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.

      • If I hurried down to the river, he said, I should be sure to fall in with a pack of wolves, for just as he was driving up the hill close to the sound, they started up the river on the ice.
   6. 9

      A flock of knots.

      • They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots.
   7. 10

      A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice

      A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.

      • a pack of thieves
      • In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it.
   8. 11

      A group of Cub Scouts.

   9. 12

      A shook of cask staves.

   10. 13

       A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

   11. 14

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

       • The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
   12. 15

       An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet…

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

   13. 16

       A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

       • That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.
   14. 17

       A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

   15. 18

       The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the…

       The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.

       • The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.
       • If the pack wasn't pummelling England, Handre Pollard kept delivering telling blows.
   16. 19

       The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.

   17. 20

       A package of cigarettes.

       • “Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”
   18. 21

       To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or…

       To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.

       • to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish
       • strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull
       • Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed
   19. 22

       To cheat.

       • Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
   20. 23

       To load with a pack.

       • to pack a horse
   21. 24

       To load

       To load; to encumber.

       • our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
   22. 25

       To move, send or carry.

       • to pack a boy off to school
       • Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
   23. 26

       To block a shot, especially in basketball.

   24. 27

       To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.

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• antonymunpackantonym(s) of “make into a pack”