pack

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English pak

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Singular
pack

Plural
packs

pack (plural packs)

  1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
    The horses carried the packs across the plain.
  2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
    A pack of lies.
  3. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  4. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
    We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
  5. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
    2005, John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba - The mammals of the southern African subregion‎
    African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
  6. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;
    a pack of thieves or knaves.
    1. More specifically, a group of Cub Scouts.
  7. A shook of cask staves.
  8. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
  9. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
    The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
  10. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
  11. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
  12. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

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(full set of cards):

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bundle to be carried
full set of playing cards
number of hounds or dogs

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to pack

Third person singular
packs

Simple past
packed

Past participle
packed

Present participle
packing

to pack (third-person singular simple present packs, present participle packing, simple past and past participle packed)

  1. (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass;
    pack goods in a box
    pack fish in a box.
  2. (transitive) 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; as,
    to pack a trunk
    the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
  3. (card games, transitive) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
  4. (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result
    pack a jury or a causes.
  5. (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
  6. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber
    to pack a horse
  7. (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off
    pack a boy off to school.
  8. (transitive) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
  9. (transitive) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
    The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags
  10. (transitive) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam
    to pack a joint
    to pack the piston of a steam engine.
    pack someone's arm with ice.
  11. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
  12. (intransitive) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
  13. (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
  14. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
  15. (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
  16. (transitive) (slang) To carry (one or more firearms) about one's person.
  17. (transitive) (sports) (slang) To block a shot, esp. in basketball.

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(To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly):

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(make into a pack):

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to make a pack
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