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packet
English
Alternative forms
- pacquet (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pak.?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæk.?t/
Noun
packet (plural packets)
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (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; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
- (colloquial) A manbulge.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
Derived terms
- fag packet
Translations
Verb
packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)
- (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
- (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- Her husband was packeted to France.
- 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
- 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
- Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]
- 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Translations
See also
- datagram
- packetlike
- packet radio
- packet switching, packet-switching
Further reading
- packet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- packet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Ptacek, peck at
German
Alternative forms
- packt
Pronunciation
Verb
packet
- imperative plural of packen
Portuguese
Noun
packet m (plural packets)
- (networking) packet (small fragment of data)
Swedish
Noun
packet
- definite singular of pack
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multitude
English
Etymology
From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- +? -tude.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?lt?tju?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?lt??t(j)ud/, /?m?l-/
- Hyphenation: mul?ti?tude
Noun
multitude (plural multitudes)
- A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle
- The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
- Synonym: crowd
- Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them.
- Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil
Derived terms
- multitudinous
Translations
References
Further reading
- multitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Old French multitude.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /myl.ti.tyd/
Noun
multitude f (plural multitudes)
- multitude
Further reading
- “multitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition).
Noun
multitude f (oblique plural multitudes, nominative singular multitude, nominative plural multitudes)
- crowd of people
- diversity; wide range
Descendants
- English: multitude
- French: multitude
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