English Explanatory Dictionary

pack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
  3. A multitude.
  4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  5. A full set of playing cards
  6. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
  7. A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
  8. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
  9. A flock of knots.
  10. A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
  11. A group of Cub Scouts.
  12. A shook of cask staves.
verb
  1. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
  2. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
  3. 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.
  4. To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
  5. To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
  6. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
  7. To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
  8. To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
  9. To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
  10. To compress (data).
  11. To cheat.
  12. To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage

Pronunciation

/pæk/ [pʰæk] En-au-pack.ogg

Word forms

pack packs packing packed

Etymology

From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”). Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).

Synonyms

deck stack

Antonyms

unpack

Derived words

ahead of the pack airpack artpack backpack bagpack battery pack beltpack bipack blister pack bobbery pack bodypack body pack booster pack bowl pack brick pack brickpack bubble pack buddy pack case pack cold pack coursepack daypack day pack digipak disk pack doublepack Duluth pack dye pack eight pack eight-pack expansion pack face pack fanny pack flash pack flat pack flatpack forepack framepack froth pack fun pack giftpack glasspack halal snack pack hardpack haul-pack truck hip pack hosepack hoverpack ice pack jam-pack jet pack jetpack jet-pack joker in the pack mailpack manpack megapack midpack minipack mod pack

Translations

Arabic: وَضَّبَ Arabic: حَزَمَ Armenian: փաթեթավորել Belarusian: упако́ўваць Belarusian: пакава́ць Belarusian: упакава́ць Belarusian: спако́ўваць Belarusian: спакава́ць Bulgarian: опако́вам Chinese Mandarin: 包裝 /包装 Dutch: inpakken Finnish: pakata French: emballer German: packen German: einpacken German: verpacken Japanese: 詰める Japanese: 包む Japanese: 包装する Korean: 싸다 Korean: 꾸리다 Korean: 챙기다 Latin: convāsō Lithuanian: pakuoti Māori: tāhere Māori: whakamātā Polish: pakować Polish: spakować Polish: zapakowywać Polish: zapakować Russian: упако́вывать Russian: пакова́ть Russian: упакова́ть Spanish: empacar Thai: ห่อ Ukrainian: упако́вувати Ukrainian: пакува́ти Ukrainian: упакува́ти Ukrainian: спако́вувати Ukrainian: спакува́ти Vietnamese: gói
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