Meaning of pack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. 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.
3. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
4. A multitude.
5. A multitude
6. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
7. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective
8. A full set of playing cards
9. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
10. A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
11. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
12. A flock of knots.
13. A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
14. A group of Cub Scouts.
15. A shook of cask staves.
16. A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
17. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
18. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
19. A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
    slang
20. A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
21. The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
22. The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
23. A package of cigarettes.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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 pack of lies”

“a pack of complaints”

“We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.”

“cut the pack”

“African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.”

“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.”

“They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots.”

“a pack of thieves”

“"She will try, for she does not know that it is you who dropped the tallow on the shirt; but that can only be done by Christian folks, and not by a pack of trolls like we have in this place; and so I will say that I will not have anybody else for a bride except the one who can wash the shirt clean, and I know you can do that."”

“In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it.”

“The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.”

“And now they came to the edge of the pack, and beyond it they could see Shiny Wall looming, through mist, and snow, and storm. But the pack rolled horribly upon the swell, and the ice giants fought and roared, and leapt upon each other's backs, and ground each other to powder […]”

“That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.”

“The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.”

“If the pack wasn't pummelling England, Handre Pollard kept delivering telling blows.”

““Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.””

CEFR level