pack
 I. pack1 (păk)n.
1.
a. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.
b. A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.
2. The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.
3. A small package containing a standard number of identical or similar items:
a pack of matches.
4.
a. A complete set of related items:
a pack of cards.
b. Informal. A large amount; a heap:
earned a pack of money.
5.
a. A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.
b. A gang of people:
a pack of hoodlums.
c. An organized troop having common interests:
a Cub Scout pack.
See Synonyms at flock1.
6. A mass of large pieces of floating ice driven together.
7. Medicine.
a. The swathing of a patient or a body part in hot, cold, wet, or dry materials, such as cloth towels, sheets, or blankets.
b. The materials so used.
c. A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound; packing.
8. An ice pack; an ice bag.
9. A cosmetic paste that is applied to the skin, allowed to dry, and then rinsed off.v. packed, pack·ing, packsv. tr.
1. To fold, roll, or combine into a bundle; wrap up.
2.
a. To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing:
pack one's belongings.
b. To fill up with items:
pack one's trunk.
3. To process and put into containers in order to preserve, transport, or sell:
packed the fruit in jars.
4.
a. To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together:
managed to pack 300 students into the lecture hall.
b. To fill up tight; cram.
5. Medicine.
a. To wrap (a patient) in a pack.
b. To insert a pack into a body cavity or wound.
6. To wrap tightly for protection or to prevent leakage:
pack a valve stem.
7. To press together; compact firmly:
packed the clay and straw into bricks.
8. Informal. To carry, deliver, or have available for action:
a thug who packed a pistol; a fighter who packs a hard punch.
9. To send unceremoniously:
The parents packed both children off to bed.
10. 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). v. intr.
1. To place one's belongings in boxes or luggage for transporting or storing.
2. To be susceptible of compact storage:
Dishes pack more easily than glasses.
3. To form lumps or masses; become compacted.Idiom:pack it in Informal
To cease work or activity:
Let's pack it in for the day. [Middle English pak, possibly of Low German origin.] pack'a·bilʹi·ty n.packʹa·ble adj. II. pack2 (păk)n.
Variant of pac.
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