pack
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
— The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
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A multitude.
— a pack of lies
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
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A full set of playing cards
— We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
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The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
— cut the pack
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A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
— African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
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A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
— If I hurried down to the river, he said, I should be sure to fall in with a pack of wolves, for just as he was driving up the hill close to the sound, they started up the river on the ice.
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A flock of knots.
— They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots.
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A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
— a pack of thieves
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
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A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
— The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
- 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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A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
— That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.
- A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
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The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
— The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.
- The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
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A package of cigarettes.
— “Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”
动词 v.
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
— to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; 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.
— to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
— The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; 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.
— to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
- To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
— the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
— the grouse or the perch begin to pack
- To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.; To compress (data).
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To cheat.; To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
— Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
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To cheat.; To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
— to pack a jury
- To cheat.; To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
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To cheat.; To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
— This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
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To load with a pack.
— to pack a horse
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To load; to encumber.
— our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
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To move, send or carry.; To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
— to pack a boy off to school
- To move, send or carry.; To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
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To move, send or carry.; To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
— Poor Stella must pack off to town.
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To move, send or carry.; To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
— packing heat
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To move, send or carry.; To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
— Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
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To move, send or carry.; To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
— I am a butch bisexual woman […] Frequently I like to appear as masculine as I can, often passing for male on the street. […] Sometimes I pack when I go out, putting my dildo in my pants and wearing my dick out of the house.
- To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
词汇关系
反义词
衍生词
ahead of the pack
airpack
artpack
backpack
bagpack
battery pack
beltpack
bipack
blister pack
bobbery pack
bodypack
body pack
booster pack
bowl pack
brick pack
brickpack
bubble pack
buddy pack
case pack
cold pack
coursepack
daypack
day pack
digipak
disk pack
doublepack
Duluth pack
dye pack
eight pack
eight-pack
expansion pack
face pack
fanny pack
flash pack
flat pack
flatpack
forepack
framepack
froth pack
fun pack
giftpack
glasspack
halal snack pack
hardpack
haul-pack truck
hip pack
hosepack
hoverpack
ice pack
jam-pack
jet pack
jetpack
jet-pack
joker in the pack
mailpack
manpack
megapack
midpack
minipack
mod pack
modpack
mudpack
multipack
naughty-pack
overpack
pack animal
pack-away
packboard
packcloth
packery
pack horse
packhorse
pack-horse
packhound
pack hound
packhouse
pack ice
pack-in
pack journalism
pack journalist
packless
packlike
pack lunch
packmaker
packmaking
packman
packmate
pack mentality
pack of cards
pack of lies
packraft
pack rat
pack-rat
packsack
packsaddle
packsheet
pack-shepherd
packshot
packstaff
packstone
packthread
pack train
pack-train
pack-up
pack-up kit
packware
packway
packyear
pack-year
pack year
photo pack
piddle pack
portage pack
power pack
prepack
presspack
press pack
RAM pack
ram-pack
rat pack
retropack
rocket pack
rocket-pack
samplepack
scene pack
service pack
six pack
six-pack
six-pack bezique
six-pack of rolls
smoke the whole pack
snowpack
starter pack
stim pack
subpack
tripack
vac pack
vacuum pack
wet pack
wolf-pack
wolf pack
woolpack
X-pack
copack
depack
mispack
packability
packable
pack a lunch
pack and play
pack a punch
pack a sad
pack a wallop
pack away
packer
pack fudge
pack heat
pack in
pack off
pack on
pack one's bags
pack on pounds
pack on the pounds
pack out
pack shit
pack up
pick and pack
repack
stack-and-pack
underpack
词源
词源 1
From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, 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”).
Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).
词源 2
From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”).
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