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The Meaning of pack
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(n.) A pact.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
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(n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things
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(n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
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(n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
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(n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
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(n.) A shook of cask staves.
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(n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
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(n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
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(n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
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(n.) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
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(n.) 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; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
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(n.) Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.
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(n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
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(n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
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(n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.
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(n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
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(n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
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(n.) 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; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.
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(v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
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(v. i.) 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.
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(v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
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(v. i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
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(v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
Synonyms
mob
,
mass
,
coterie
,
masses
,
gang
,
plurality
,
battalion
,
ingroup
,
large number
,
inner circle
,
the great unwashed
,
face pack
,
multitude
,
clique
,
camp
,
concourse
,
throng
,
hoi polloi
,
ring
,
relative majority
,
people
,
bunch
,
ringing
,
annulus
,
hoop
,
work party
,
anchor ring
,
crowd
,
rabble
,
halo
,
rout
,
family
,
crime syndicate
,
closed chain
,
doughnut
,
crew
,
tintinnabulation
,
band
,
syndicate
,
refugee camp
,
encampment
,
summer camp
,
cantonment
,
bivouac
,
bundle
,
take
,
tamp
,
jam
,
compact
,
pile
,
tamp down
,
backpack
,
carry
,
wad
,
load down
,
cluster
,
bunch up
,
jampack
,
pack together
,
press
,
bundle up
,
ram
,
clump
,
roll up
,
chock up
,
contract
,
squeeze
,
cram
,
constrict
,
practice bundling
,
compress
,
require
,
read
,
occupy
,
subscribe to
,
rent
,
withdraw
,
run
,
lead
,
ingest
,
deal
,
assume
,
have
,
hold
,
choose
,
study
,
learn
,
fill
,
necessitate
,
consume
,
stock
,
drive
,
demand
,
persuade
,
consider
,
need
,
deport
,
behave
,
pick out
,
claim
,
express
,
channel
,
adopt
,
remove
,
transmit
,
dribble
,
lease
,
take on
,
transport
,
take up
,
bring
,
strike
,
use up
,
select
,
train
,
make
,
comport
,
acquit
,
impart
,
get
,
get hold of
,
exact
,
take away
,
post
,
call for
,
take in
,
expect
,
have a bun in the oven
,
submit
,
convey
,
take aim
,
shoot
,
aim
,
film
,
direct
,
charter
,
extend
,
contain
,
sway
,
bear
,
subscribe
,
involve
,
acquire
,
look at
,
postulate
,
stockpile
,
hire
,
accept
,
guide
,
admit
,
engage
,
gestate
,
ask
,
conduct
,
obstruct
,
heap
,
crush
,
block
,
occlude
,
impede
,
stack
,
obturate
,
close up
,
flock
,
bevy
,
covey
,
group
,
herd
,
lot
,
set
,
brood
,
drove
,
hatch
,
litter
,
swarm
Antonyms
unpack
,
take out
Homophones
pac
,
pak
,
paque
Rhymes
aback
,
ack
,
adak
,
akc
,
almanac
,
amnesiac
,
anorak
,
attack
,
back
,
backe
,
backpack
,
backtrack
,
bak
,
bakke
,
beaulac
,
biofeedback
,
black
,
blackjack
,
boback
,
brac
,
brack
,
brakke
,
braque
,
brumback
,
bushwhack
,
buyback
,
cac
,
cadillac
,
cardiac
,
chirac
,
clack
,
claque
,
cognac
,
comeback
,
counterattack
,
crack
,
crackerjack
,
cutback
,
dac
,
dack
,
dak
,
drawback
,
dulac
,
fac
,
fallback
,
feedback
,
flack
,
flak
,
flapjack
,
flashback
,
fullback
,
greenback
,
gunnysack
,
hack
,
hacke
,
hackensack
,
hackmatack
,
halfback
,
haq
,
hardback
,
hatchback
,
haystack
,
hibaaq
,
hijack
,
hoback
,
horseback
,
humpback
,
hunchback
,
insomniac
,
jac
,
jack
,
jacques
,
kickback
,
knack
,
knapsack
,
knick-knack
,
knickknack
,
kodak
,
kodiak
,
krack
,
kracke
,
kwak
,
lac
,
lack
,
lak
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leaseback
,
leatherback
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lilac
,
lumberjack
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mac
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mack
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macke
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maniac
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megalomaniac
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merrimack
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nacke
,
netback
,
nyack
,
nymphomaniac
,
outback
,
pac
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pak
,
paperback
,
paque
,
paranoiac
,
payback
,
piggyback
,
plack
,
placke
,
plaque
,
playback
,
pontiac
,
post-attack
,
prickleback
,
prozac
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ptak
,
pullback
,
quack
,
quarterback
,
racetrack
,
rack
,
ransack
,
razorback
,
repack
,
roback
,
rollback
,
ryback
,
sac
,
sack
,
sacque
,
sak
,
schack
,
schlack
,
schnack
,
schrack
,
setback
,
shack
,
shaq
,
sidetrack
,
skipjack
,
slack
,
slayback
,
smack
,
smokestack
,
snack
,
soundtrack
,
spack
,
spak
,
stac
,
stack
,
strack
,
stracke
,
tac
,
tack
,
tarmac
,
thack
,
throwback
,
thwack
,
trac
,
track
,
trak
,
unpack
,
vanvlack
,
wack
,
wacke
,
whack
,
wingback
,
wisecrack
,
wrack
,
yack
,
yak
,
zach
,
zack
,
zodiac