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plack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plæk/, [p?l?æk]
- (UK) IPA(key): /plak/, [p?l?ak]
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch placke (“name of a coin”). Cognate with Old High German pleh, bleh (“thin leaf of metal, plate”). Compare plaque.
Noun
plack (plural placks)
- (obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. [15th-17th c.]
- (Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies. [from 15th c.]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 49:
- ‘Yes, I prayed you to grant my life, which is in your power. The saving of it would not have cost you a plack, yet you refused to do it.’
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 49:
Etymology 2
Noun
plack
- Misspelling of plaque.
Scots
Etymology
Probably from West Flemish placke (“small coin”), related to French plaque, Medieval Latin placa. See English plaque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plak/
Noun
plack (plural placks)
- (historical) plack
- And than, besides his valiant acts, / At bridals he won many placks. (Robert Sempill, ‘The Piper of Kilbarchan’)
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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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