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Definition pack

Etymology 1

From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”). Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).

Noun

pack (plural packs)

1. 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.
2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
3. A multitude.
4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
5. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
6. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
7. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
8. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
9. A group of Cub Scouts.
10. A shook of cask staves.
11. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
12. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
13. (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. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
15. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
16. (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”).

Verb

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

1. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
   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.
   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.
   3. (transitive) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
   4. (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.
   5. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
   6. (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.
   7. (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools.
   8. (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
2. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
   1. (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
   2. (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
   3. (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
   4. (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
3. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
4. To move, send or carry.
   1. (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.
   2. (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).
   3. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
   4. (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
5. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
6. (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
7. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.

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