Definitions for packing

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packing pack·ing

Spelling: [pak-ing]

IPA: /ˈpæk ɪŋ/

Packing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in packing (acgiknp).

Definitions for packing

noun

1. the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
2. the preparation and packaging of foodstuffs, especially to be sold at wholesale.
3. the way in which something is packed.
4. an act or instance of transporting supplies, goods, etc., on the backs of horses, mules, or persons.
5. material used to cushion or protect goods packed in a container.
6. material, often in the form of a grease-impregnated fibrous ring, compressed inside a stuffing box or the like to prevent leakage around the moving shaft of an engine, pump, or valve.
7. Printing. rubber, paper, or other material fastened to the tympan or cylinder of a press to provide pressure to produce a printed impression.
8. 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:
9. a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination):
10. the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.:
11. a group of people or things:
12. a group of certain animals of the same kind, especially predatory ones:
13. Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
14. a complete set of playing cards, usually 52 in number; deck.
15. backpack.
16. a considerable area of pieces of floating ice driven or packed together.
17. Metalworking. a pile of metal sheets for hot-rolling together.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. a cosmetic material, usually of a pastelike consistency, applied either to the face or to the hair and scalp:
21. pac2 (def 1).
22. Obsolete. a plot; conspiracy.
23. 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.

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 packing

1350-1400; Middle English pakking (gerund). See pack¹, -ing¹

Examples for packing

"You'd better be packing your trunk," the Inspector rumbled.

You've sent Briggs off, and I've all that packing and unpacking to do.

Last weekend a family slipped out at four in the morning, packing their bags and leaving out the side door without a word.

The West is packing up, victorious in battle but defeated in war.

The hallways were strewn with straw and the litter of packing.

"I notice you're packing yours, large as life," Jack pointed out.

With the vacation season right around the corner, packing up your trip staples has become part of the routine.

"I'll carry it—I'm more used to packing bottles," he announced gravely.

Instead of packing the courts with judges, it had packed the courthouses with defendants.

The logistics are a pain in the ass, packing stuff for two days spending time at his place—will it rain, should I take boots?