Meaning of Packing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The action of the verb.
   countable, uncountable
2. The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
   countable, uncountable
3. The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
   countable, uncountable
4. The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
   countable, uncountable
5. The forming of players into a scrum.
   countable, uncountable
6. As a concrete noun.
   countable, uncountable
7. Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
   countable, uncountable
8. Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
   countable, uncountable
9. A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
   countable, uncountable
10. Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
    countable, uncountable
11. Clipping of meatpacking.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep⟳ the feet warm and to make⟳ the fur boot fit firmly.”

“Among the inner packings in use⟳ are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating).”

“Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column”

CEFR level