pack

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

packs

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

pack

past (v2)

packed

past participle (v3)

packed

present participle

packing

3rd person singular

packs

Noun

Noun

×

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 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.

   • 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 multitude.

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

4. 4.A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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

   • The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.

2. 2.To cheat.

   • Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
   • The expected council was dwindling into[…]a packed assembly of Italian bishops.
   • This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.

3. 3.To load; to encumber.

4. 4.To load with a pack.

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