Pack

English Meaning

A pact.

1. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.
2. A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.
3. The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.
4. A small package containing a standard number of identical or similar items: a pack of matches.
5. A complete set of related items: a pack of cards.
6. Informal A large amount; a heap: earned a pack of money.
7. A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.
8. A gang of people: a pack of hoodlums.
9. An organized troop having common interests: a Cub Scout pack. See Synonyms at flock1.
10. A mass of large pieces of floating ice driven together.
11. Medicine The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
12. Medicine The materials so used.
13. Medicine A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound; packing.
14. An ice pack; an ice bag.
15. A cosmetic paste that is applied to the skin, allowed to dry, and then rinsed off.
16. To fold, roll, or combine into a bundle; wrap up.
17. To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing: pack one's belongings.
18. To fill up with items: pack one's trunk.
19. To process and put into containers in order to preserve, transport, or sell: packed the fruit in jars.
20. To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together: managed to pack 300 students into the lecture hall.
21. To fill up tight; cram.
22. Medicine To wrap (a patient) in a pack.
23. Medicine To insert a pack into a body cavity or wound.
24. To wrap tightly for protection or to prevent leakage: pack a valve stem.
25. To press together; compact firmly: packed the clay and straw into bricks.
26. Informal To carry, deliver, or have available for action: a thug who packed a pistol; a fighter who packs a hard punch.
27. To send unceremoniously: The parents packed both children off to bed.
28. To constitute (a voting panel) by appointment, selection, or arrangement in such a way that it is favorable to one's purposes or point of view; rig: "In 1937 Roosevelt threatened to pack the court” ( New Republic).
29. To place one's belongings in boxes or luggage for transporting or storing.
30. To be susceptible of compact storage: Dishes pack more easily than glasses.
31. To form lumps or masses; become compacted.
32. pack it in Informal To cease work or activity: Let's pack it in for the day.
33. Variant of pac.