Definitions for Pack

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Pack pack

Spelling: [pak]

IPA: /pæk/

Pack is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Pack (ackp).

Definitions for Pack

noun

1. a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person:
2. a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination):
3. the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.:
4. a group of people or things:
5. a group of certain animals of the same kind, especially predatory ones:
6. Hunting. a number of hounds, especially 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 wrapping of the body in wet or dry clothes for therapeutic purposes. the cloths so used. Obsolete. the state of being so wrapped.
12. Mining. Also called pack wall. a rubble wall for supporting a roof. 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:
14. pac2 (def 1).
15. Obsolete. a plot; conspiracy.
16. Obsolete. a low or worthless person.

Idioms

1. pack it in, to give up; abandon one's efforts: to cease being a nuisance.

adjective

1. transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load:
2. compressed into a pack; packed.
3. used in or adapted for packing:
4. Chiefly Scot. (of animals) tame.
5. Scot. very friendly or intimate.

Verb phrases

1. pack in/up, to relinquish or give up; quit:
2. pack off/away, to dispatch: to leave hastily.

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a pack or bundle.
2. to form into a group or compact mass.
3. to fill with anything compactly arranged:
4. to put into or arrange compactly in a trunk, valise, etc., as for traveling or storage:
5. to press or crowd together within; cram:
6. to prepare for marketing by putting into containers or packages:
7. to make airtight, vaportight, or watertight by stuffing:
8. to cover or envelop with something pressed closely around.
9. to load, as with packs:
10. to carry or wear, especially as part of one's usual equipment:
11. Informal. to deliver (a powerful blow, strong message, etc.):
12. to treat with a therapeutic pack.
13. to choose, collect, arrange, or manipulate (cards, persons, facts, etc.) so as to serve one's own purposes:

verb (used without object)

1. to pack goods in compact form, as for transportation or storage (often followed by up).
2. to place clothes and personal items in a suitcase, trunk, etc., preparatory to traveling.
3. to be capable of or suitable for compact storage or packing for transportation:
4. to crowd together, as persons:
5. to become compacted:
6. to collect into a group:

Origin of Pack

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English pak, packe Middle Dutch pac or perhaps Middle Low German pak; (v.) Middle English pakken Middle Dutch or Middle Low German

Examples for Pack

There was only one thing to do—make up the pack as soon as possible and leave the place.

“Change can be exciting,” Cuomo says to Richards as he helps her pack up her office.

New York City boasts the highest cost for cigarettes in the nation, with a pack ranging anywhere from $12 and up.

And now I must pack up a few necessaries in my bag, and be off to Mr. Brunton's.

On the afternoon Brown was killed, he had stolen a pack of cigars from a convenience store.

So what has “feminist” done to deserve its spot at the top of the pack?

Leading the pack of millennial art wunderkinds is Idaho-native Akiane Kramarik, who began drawing at age two.

The slave-hunter was sent for and came with his pack of dogs that same day about noon.

The moment she was in her room, Amy began to pack a small carpet-bag.

When you pack your wardrobes put a few spring-beds in your trunk.