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pack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæk/, [p?æk]
- Rhymes: -æk
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)
- 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.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A multitude.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A full set of playing cards
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- A group 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.
- 2005, John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- (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.
- (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
Synonyms
(full set of cards): deck
Derived terms
Translations
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)
- (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator Number 275
- strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull
- 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator Number 275
- (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.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- (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.
- (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, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (social) To cheat.
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- 1733 Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- 1733 Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An answer to some considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of the Reformation
- The expected council was dwindling into […] a packed assembly of Italian bishops.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An answer to some considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of the Reformation
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The church-history of Britain
- He lost life […] upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The church-history of Britain
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (transitive) To load with a pack
- (transitive, figuratively) to load; to encumber.
- To move, send or carry.
- (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, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood-Park:
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Dora:
- You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again.
- 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood-Park:
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (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, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
- (intransitive, LGBT, of a drag king, trans man, etc.) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
Synonyms
- (To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly): stack
Antonyms
- (make into a pack): unpack
Derived terms
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pak/
Noun
pack m (plural packs)
- pack (item of packaging)
- pack ice
- (sports) A rugby team
Middle English
Noun
pack
- Alternative form of pak
Scots
Adjective
pack
- intimate; confidential
Spanish
Etymology
From English pack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pak/, [?pak]
Noun
pack m (plural packs)
- pack, package
- kit, set, bundle
- (colloquial, euphemistic) sexual photos and videos, paid or not, sent over internet, network social; sexting photos
Swedish
Noun
pack n
- a group of unwanted people, lower class people, trash
- stuff, things, luggage; only in the expression pick och pack
Declension
See also
- packa
- paket
Descendants
- ? Finnish: pakka
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weight
English
Etymology
From Middle English weight, wei?te, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ?ewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *wegan? (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”).
Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”) and Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”) and German Gewicht (“weight”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /we?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
- Homophone: wait
Noun
weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- Importance or influence.
- 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
- Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
- 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11
- "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
- 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
- (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- (lubricants) viscosity rating.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- Pressure; burden.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)
- [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
- 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)
- (criminal slang, dated) Money.
- 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)
- No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.
- 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)
Alternative forms
- wt. (abbreviation)
Derived terms
Related terms
- weigh
Coordinate terms
- mass
- inertial mass
- gravitational mass
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (ueito)
- ? Burmese: ???? (wit)
Translations
Verb
weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
Translations
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