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verb
noun
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a wrapped container
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
noun
- The act of packing something.
- the business of packing
- The materials used to pack something.
- The industry that produces such material.
- (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- material used to make packages
verb
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- Dark-brown sard.
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
adj
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- Weighted with lead or similar.
- (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
- (slang) Drunk.
- (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
- (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
- (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- very drunk
- (of weapons) charged with ammunition
- filled with a great quantity
- (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence
verb
verb
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- 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; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- 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 to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
verb
- load with a pack
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- arrange in a container
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (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.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
noun
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (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.
- 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.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
noun
- A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
- (countable, especially India) An email message.
- (now regional) A bag or wallet.
- Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
- (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
- (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
- The postal service or system in general.
- The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- (chiefly Scotland) Tax.
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
verb
verb
- (of things) To put into bags to prepare to move.
- To move one’s residence.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
- To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
- To put back together.
- To clear away and place into storage.
- (informal, of a machine) To break, to cease to function.
- To give in.
adj
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- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
noun
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- carrying something in a pack on the back
- Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
- (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
- Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
- Clipping of meatpacking.
- any material used especially to protect something
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
verb
verb
noun
- (more specifically) A type of package for semiconductor devices, in which the chips are placed in a housing and then compressed using a mechanical press.
- A collection of promotional materials that is made available to members of the press.
- Any of various types of packaging that are sealed using a mechanical press.
- A group of journalists who are covering an event.
verb
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
noun
- any load that is difficult to carry
- one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
- (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
- (figurative) Ellipsis of millstone around one's neck, a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible).
- A large round stone used for grinding grain.
- (geology) A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit.
noun
- Any bag containing a mixture of something.
- (by extension) A group of entities with few characteristics in common.
- (idiomatic) Something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To redecorate (a room, etc.); to make improvements to (a home or domestic property).
- (transitive) To style (someone's hair); to give (someone) an updo; to wear an updo.
- (slang) To beat up; to physically assault.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)
- (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To execute a task or performance.
- use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.
- wrap for decorative purposes
verb
- put into a bag
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
noun
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
noun
- luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
- a long flexible snout as of an elephant
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
- The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
- (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
- A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- The main line or body of anything.
- (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- (automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
- (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
- The torso; especially, the human torso.
- (US, telecommunications) A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
- (Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- (in the plural) Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
verb
noun
- The act of packing something.
- the business of packing
- The materials used to pack something.
- The industry that produces such material.
- (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- material used to make packages
verb
noun
- A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
- (countable, especially India) An email message.
- (now regional) A bag or wallet.
- Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
- (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
- (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
- The postal service or system in general.
- The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- (chiefly Scotland) Tax.
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
verb
noun
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- carrying something in a pack on the back
- Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
- (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
- Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
- Clipping of meatpacking.
- any material used especially to protect something
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
verb
noun
- any load that is difficult to carry
- one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
- (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
- (figurative) Ellipsis of millstone around one's neck, a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible).
- A large round stone used for grinding grain.
- (geology) A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit.
noun
- Any bag containing a mixture of something.
- (by extension) A group of entities with few characteristics in common.
- (idiomatic) Something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
noun
- luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
- a long flexible snout as of an elephant
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
- The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
- (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
- A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- The main line or body of anything.
- (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- (automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
- (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
- The torso; especially, the human torso.
- (US, telecommunications) A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
- (Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- (in the plural) Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
verb
verb
noun
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a wrapped container
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
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noun
verb
adj
noun
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adj
noun
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- Dark-brown sard.
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
verb
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- 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; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- 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 to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
verb
- load with a pack
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- arrange in a container
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (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.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
noun
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (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.
- 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.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
verb
- (of things) To put into bags to prepare to move.
- To move one’s residence.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
- To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
- To put back together.
- To clear away and place into storage.
- (informal, of a machine) To break, to cease to function.
- To give in.
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
noun
- (more specifically) A type of package for semiconductor devices, in which the chips are placed in a housing and then compressed using a mechanical press.
- A collection of promotional materials that is made available to members of the press.
- Any of various types of packaging that are sealed using a mechanical press.
- A group of journalists who are covering an event.
verb
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To redecorate (a room, etc.); to make improvements to (a home or domestic property).
- (transitive) To style (someone's hair); to give (someone) an updo; to wear an updo.
- (slang) To beat up; to physically assault.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)
- (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To execute a task or performance.
- use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.
- wrap for decorative purposes
verb
- put into a bag
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
noun
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
adj
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- Weighted with lead or similar.
- (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
- (slang) Drunk.
- (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
- (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
- (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- very drunk
- (of weapons) charged with ammunition
- filled with a great quantity
- (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence