Pack

[pæk]

解释:

(noun.) a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film).

(noun.) a bundle (especially one carried on the back).

(noun.) a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect.

(noun.) a cream that cleanses and tones the skin.

(noun.) a complete collection of similar things.

(noun.) a group of hunting animals.

(verb.) treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood; 'The nurse packed gauze in the wound'; 'You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice'.

(verb.) carry, as on one's back; 'Pack your tents to the top of the mountain'.

(verb.) arrange in a container; 'pack the books into the boxes'.

(verb.) load with a pack.

(verb.) compress into a wad; 'wad paper into the box'.

(verb.) seal with packing; 'pack the faucet'.

(verb.) fill to capacity; 'This singer always packs the concert halls'; 'The murder trial packed the court house'.

(verb.) set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome; 'pack a jury'.

手打:威利--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A pact.

(n.) A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

(n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

(n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things

(n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.

(n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

(n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.

(n.) A shook of cask staves.

(n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

(n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

(n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

(n.) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.

(n.) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.

(n.) 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; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

(n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

(n.) Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.

(n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

(n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.

(n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.

(n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).

(n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

(n.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

(v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

(v. i.) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

(v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.

(v. i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.

(v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

手打:鲁迪

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Bundle, package, budget, parcel, packet, bale.[2]. Burden, load.[3]. Collection, assemblage, assortment.[4]. Gang, crew, set, knot, band, clan, company, bevy, lot, squad.

v. a. Compress (into a bundle), put together (in close order).

格雷西校对

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Burden, bundle, package, lot, parcel, load,[See BURDEN]

SYN:Stow, compact, compress, cook

ANT:Unpack, unsettle, jumble, displace, misarrange, dissipate, neutralize

赫克托整理

解释:

n. a bundle made to be carried on the back: a collection stock or store: a bundle of some particular kind or quantity as of wool 480 or 240 lb.: the quantity of fish packed: a complete set of cards: a number of animals herding together or kept together for hunting: a number of persons combined for bad purposes: any great number: a large extent of floating and broken ice: a wet sheet for folding round the body to allay inflammation fever &c.—v.t. to press together and fasten up: to place in order: to crowd: to assort bring together select or manipulate persons cards &c. for some unjust object: to send away as from one's presence or employment: to surround a joint &c. with any substance to prevent leaking &c.—v.i. to store things away anywhere for safe keeping &c.: to settle into a firm mass: to admit of being put into compact shape: to depart in haste.—ns. Pack′age the act of packing also something packed: a bundle or bale: a charge made for packing; Pack′-an′imal a beast of burden used to carry goods on its back; Pack′-cinch (-sinsh) a wide girth of canvas &c. having a hook and ring attached for adjusting the load of a pack-animal; Pack′-cloth a cloth in which goods are tied up: packsheet; Pack′er one who packs: one who cures and packs provisions: any device to fill the space between the tubing and the sides of an oil-well &c.; Pack′et a small package: a ship or vessel employed in carrying packets of letters passengers &c.: a vessel plying regularly between one port and another (also Pack′et-boat Pack′et-ship &c.).—v.t. to bind in a packet or parcel: to send in a packet.—ns. Pack′et-day the day of the departure or arrival of a mail-ship; Pack′et-note (see Note-paper); Pack′-horse a horse used to carry goods in panniers: a drudge; Pack′-ice a collection of large pieces of floating ice; Pack′ing the act of putting into packs or of tying up for carriage: material for packing: anything used to fill an empty space or to make a joint close as the elastic ring round a moving rod or piston to make it a tight fit; Pack′ing-box -case a box in which goods are packed: a hollow place round the opening of a steam cylinder filled with some soft substance which being pressed hard against the piston-rod makes it a tight fit; Pack′ing-need′le or Sack-needle a strong needle for sewing up packages; Pack′ing-pā′per a strong and thick kind of wrapping-paper; Pack′ing-press a press for squeezing goods into small compass for packing; Pack′ing-sheet or Pack′sheet coarse cloth for packing goods; Pack′-load the load an animal can carry on its back; Pack′man a peddler or a man who carries a pack; Pack′-mule a mule used for carrying burdens; Pack′-sadd′le a saddle for packs or burdens; Pack′-thread a coarse thread used to sew up packages; Pack′-train a train of loaded pack-animals; Pack′way a narrow path fit for pack-horses.—Pack a jury meeting &c. to fill up with persons of a particular kind for one's own purposes.—Send one packing to dismiss summarily.

adj. (Scot.) intimate confidential.

手打:奥利