noun
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.
We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack.
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
A multitude.
a pack of lies
a pack of complaints
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
A full set of playing cards
We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
verb
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
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.