1. n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
a packet of letters
a packet of crisps
a packet of biscuits
2. n. (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing;
3. n. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. n. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. n. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
6. n. (colloquial) A manbulge.
7. n. (informal) A large amount of money.
It'll cost a packet to fix this.
8. v. To make up into a packet or bundle.
9. v. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
10. v. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
11. v. (transitive, internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
Film properties are almost always packaged by their producers or agents before they are sold to studios. The package contains two or more of the following bankable elements: script, director, stars.
6. n. (Programmation) Paquetage, paquet-programme, produit-programme, bloc de programmes, collection de programmes.
7. n. (Mercatique) Conditionnement (emballage en contact direct avec le produit).<!--
8. n. (Plasturgie) Enroulement.
Packages may be unsupported as skeins or cakes, or prepared with various winding patterns on bobbins, cops, cones, pirns, spools, tubes or beams.
9. n. (Télévision) Bouquet de chaînes.
A package of programs or services sold as a unit and usually distributed by satellite.
10. n. (Textile) Support, support pour enroulements, bobine.
A large selection of forms for winding yarn is available to meet the requirements of existing machinery, and a variety of package builds is use to ensure suitable unwinding in later stages of manufacturing.
1. n. Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
2. n. Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?
3. n. (computing) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
4. n. (archaic) The act of packing something.
5. n. Something resembling a package.
6. n. A package holiday.
7. n. A football formation.
the "dime" defensive package
For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.
8. n. (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
9. n. (historical) A charge made for packing goods.
10. v. To pack or bundle something.
11. v. To travel on a package holiday.
12. v. To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster.
1. n. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
a bunch of grapes; a bunch of bananas; a bunch of keys; a bunch of yobs on a street corner
2. n. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. n. An informal body of friends.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
4. n. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
a bunch of trouble
5. n. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
A bunch of them went down to the field.
6. n. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. n. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
8. n. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. n. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.
10. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
11. v. To gather into a bunch.
12. v. To gather fabric into folds.
13. v. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
14. v. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
1. n. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes
2. n. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. n. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
4. n. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
5. n. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
examples of bundles would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
6. n. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
7. n. A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
8. n. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
9. n. (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
10. v. To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
11. v. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
12. v. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
13. v. To dress someone warmly.
14. v. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
15. v. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
16. v. (intransitive) To hurry.
17. v. (slang) (altname, dogpile): to form a pile of people upon a victim.
18. v. To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
19. v. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
1. n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack;
2. n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal
3. n. The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
The sack of Rome.
4. n. Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
5. n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense4 below.
6. n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
7. n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense4 below.
The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
He got the sack for being late all the time.
8. n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
9. n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century;
10. n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
11. n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.
12. v. To put in a sack or sacks.
Help me sack the groceries.
13. v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
14. v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
The barbarians sacked Rome.
15. v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
16. v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
He was sacked last September.
17. v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.
18. n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
19. n. dated form of sac, , pouch in a plant or animal
20. v. alternative spelling of sac id=sacrifice v sacrifice
21. n. alternative spelling of sac id=sacrifice n sacrifice
I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
2. n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
3. n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
4. n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
5. n. (often, in the colloquial) A large number or amount.
I got loads of presents for my birthday!
I got a load of emails about that.
6. n. The volume of work required to be performed.
Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
7. n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
8. n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
9. n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
10. n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
11. n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
12. n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
13. n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
14. n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
15. n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
16. n. (euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.
What a load!
17. n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
18. v. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
The dock workers refused to load the ship.
19. v. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
20. v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
21. v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
The truck is designed to load easily.
22. v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
The containers load quickly and easily.
23. v. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
24. v. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
25. v. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
26. v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
The cartridge was designed to load easily.
27. v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Click OK to load the selected data.
28. v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
This program takes an age to load.
29. v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
He walks to load the bases.
30. v. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
31. v. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
32. v. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
The new owners loaded debt on the company.
33. v. To provide in abundance.
He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
34. v. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.
35. v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
1. n. 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.
2. n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
3. n. a multitude.
a pack of lies
a pack of complaints
4. n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
5. n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game
We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
6. n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
7. n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
8. n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
a pack of thieves or knaves
9. n. A group of Cub Scouts.
10. n. A shook of cask staves.
11. n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
12. n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
13. n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
14. n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
15. n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
16. n. (rugby) The team on the field.
17. v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
18. v. 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 orde
to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
19. v. 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 a
to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
20. v. 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.
21. v. 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
to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
22. v. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
23. v. (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
the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
24. v. (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools.
the grouse or the perch begin to pack
25. v. (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
26. v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
27. v. (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
28. v. To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
to pack a jury
29. v. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
30. v. (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
31. v. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
to pack a horse
32. v. To move, send or carry.
33. v. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack
to pack a boy off to school
34. v. (transitive, US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
35. v. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
36. v. (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
37. v. (transitive, sports) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
38. v. (intransitive, LGBT slang) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
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