单词 | pack |
释义 | pack I. 1. a. (1) < sat on the deck by the bulky aid packs that the corpsmen had deposited — L.M.Uris > < parachute pack > (2) < have him roll a full field pack … extra shoes helmet and all — James Jones > (3) b. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) c. (1) < pack of cigarettes > < a fiber drum pack of dressed chickens — Recommended Specifications for Poultry & Poultry Products > < open a pack of canned goods > (2) < saw the little pilot chute whip out behind him, dragging the silk from the pack — Howard Hunt > specifically < polyethylene makes ideal individual packs catsup, mustard, jelly — Newsweek > (3) (4) 2. a. < took her for granted as part of the family pack — Anne D. Sedgwick > especially < pursued … by a pack of every able-bodied villager, armed with sticks and stones — T.H.White b.1906 > < this heedless pack of curiosity seekers were suffocating him — L.C.Douglas > b. c. < a cub pack may be started in any community where a group of interested parents obtain the sponsorship of a responsible institution — Parents' Magazine > 3. a. b. < a … good fellow with packs of courage — H.J.Laski > < a pack of lies made up by a vindictive person — Rex Ingamells > c. (1) (2) (3) (4) 4. a. < field pack of peaches by migrant workers > < the first experimental packs were made in Denver in 1908 — M.A.Joslyn & L.A.Hohl > b. < vacuum pack > < dry sugar packs are in the proportion of three pounds of fruit to one of sugar — Anne Pierce > c. < the military requires … more than 9 percent of the national pack of canned fruits and vegetables — R.B.Russell > < supplying the fish for a hundred thousand case pack — N.C.McDonald > 5. a. (1) < kept a pack of tiny beagles — E.J.Oates > < led the pack out of the starting gate — G.F.T.Ryall > (2) < baboons … ran in packs of fifty or more — Alan Moorehead > < tunas roving the open sea in packs — Rachel L. Carson > < prairie chickens congregating in winter packs > specifically < wolf pack > b. < made the freeway and flitted through the slower car packs — Motor Life > especially < a submarine pack that sank twelve ships in two hours — Fortune > < the pack of jets … passed overhead on their way to the targets — B.J.Friedman > 6. a. < a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved — Scott Fitzgerald > specifically < locked in the antarctic ice until the breakup of the pack in the summer — Glen Jacobsen > b. 7. a. b. 8. a. b. 9. II. transitive verb 1. a. < packed and unpacked all the gear in traveling — Weston La Barre > < a couple of staff sergeants were packing film into the combat cameras — Walter Peters > < put on his hat, packed up his family, and set off — Atlantic > < packs an extraordinary amount of information into a few pages — Times Literary Supplement > b. < pack a bag > < pack a stadium > < the whole horizon seemed packed with their white sails — Kenneth Roberts > < into twelve hours had been packed the events that well might have filled a lifetime — Rafael Sabatini > < a route … packed with scenes of mountain splendor — O.S.Nock > c. (1) (2) d. archaic < packed on all sail — William Scoresby †1857 > e. < pack a mule > f. < vegetables usually reach Salinas by the truckload and there they are washed, trimmed, inspected and packed — Monsanto Magazine > 2. a. < in the yard packed solid were the farmers, standing silently — Meridel Le Sueur > < in the past all the galaxies now so widely scattered were packed tightly together — George Gamow > b. < packed the lower soil so that capillarity could operate — W.P.Webb > 3. a. < saw her packed back to Holland when the Dutch exiled him — Time > — usually used with off < the children are packed off to Sunday school — Times Literary Supplement > < calmed him down and packed him off to bed — Clemence Dane > specifically < could neither be tactfully paid off nor summarily packed off — S.H.Adams > b. < gossip … that he might soon pack up his assignment and return to the United States — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < machine-gun bullets packed up the airplane's transmitter > < does not mean that … a supreme master in the saddle, will pack in riding — Irish Digest > 4. < hounds well packed as they close in on their quarry > specifically < the coach came in and we packed a scrum for him — A.P.Gaskell > 5. a. < packed it away from the operative field with gauze packs — R.P.Parsons > specifically b. < the valve stem is packed against exhaust pressure only — Ingersoll-Rand General Catalogue > 6. a. < pack a canoe over a portage > < two platoons … were ordered to pack the ammunition to them on foot — Infantry Journal > < pack a suitcase > b. < would pay $20 a day each to be packed back into the … Gorge for trout — Frank Daugherty > < packed guns and ammunition enough to make their horses swaybacked — F.B.Gipson > c. < pack a gun > < pack a union card > < clothes-conscious … although they stop somewhere short of packing a rolled-up umbrella — W.L.Worden > d. < the storm … packing winds of eighty to ninety miles — New York Times > < these proven weapons … pack nuclear warheads — R.C.Albrook > < few streets in America pack more history to the square foot — Budd Schulberg > e. slang < world's heavyweight champion … packed a wallop — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < a book that packs a man-sized punch — C.J.Rolo > intransitive verb 1. a. < no one simply packs off and leaves an obligation without first making some explanation — Dorothy Baker > specifically < when he refused to work … he was calmly told by the youthful manager to pack up — Breeder's Gazette > b. < the motors coughed and packed up — Auckland (New Zealand) Weekly News > < why don't you pack in, before you kill yourself — Millard Lampell > 2. a. < was given an overseas assignment and sent home to pack > < the company will probably pack up and move south — Time > specifically < the final step in flour manufacture is packing — Studies for Flour Salesmen > b. < a knit dress packs well > < air mattresses pack away into a small space > c. archaic < be ready to pack after them, if they are gone to the bay — Horatio Nelson > d. < watch the big tarnished grange pack to the rafters — William Du Bois > 3. a. < snow partridges are wont to pack like grouse in the autumn — Douglas Carruthers > specifically < the dogs followed in fine order, packing and driving as they went — Red Ranger > b. < excursionists … pack into a bus — Richard Joseph > specifically < forwards still mostly packed 3-2-3 — O.L.Owen > 4. a. < one man handed up sandbags while the other packed > b. < some broken ores tend to pack in stopes, and must be blasted out — Robert Peele > < ice packed up against the cab glasses, and visibility was just about nil — O.S.Nock > 5. a. < domesticated animals … used for packing — J.H.Steward > b. < telling about the summer he packed into the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming — Hamilton Basso > Synonyms: < pack a bag for an overnight trip > < pack a box until it splits open at the sides > < a play that packs the theater every night > crowd implies a great number of things out of proportion to the space available for them, sometimes suggesting pressing or serious inconvenience < salmon crowded both streams — W.L.Worden > < various chapters of the book are crowded with references — Paolo Milano > < visitors crowding the vacation areas > cram suggests more strongly the excessive packing to the point of bruising or squeezing, often implying a disorderly and forcible insertion of something into an inadequately large receptacle or area < into a day that begins each morning at 7:30, Jim crams enough work to fill two — Newsweek > < the man whose shelves are crammed with horticultural books — A.J.P.Taylor > < a man doesn't try to cram his feet into his wife's shoes — Constance Foster > stuff implies a filling to the point of bulging or protrusion, often suggesting also the disorder of cramming < stuff a pillow with feathers > < stuff a handful of bills into a wallet > < stuffed himself with cake > ram carries the idea of pounding, stamping, or pushing hard to force in < ram a bullet into the rifle barrel > < pronging great slices of meat onto his fork and ramming them into his mouth — Bruce Marshall > tamp usually implies a loose packing in (as of something granular) by the pressure of repeated light blows < tamping the gravel back around the ties — Charlton Laird > < tamp tobacco in a pipe bowl > < the floors were of tamped earth — American Guide Series: Washington > III. intransitive verb obsolete < go pack with him, and give the mother gold — Shakespeare > transitive verb 1. obsolete a. < that goldsmith there, were he not packed with her, could witness it — Shakespeare > b. < had it been a packed business, they would have been careful not to have differed in a tittle — Francis Bragge > 2. a. < succeeded … in packing parliament with their adherents — Publ's Mod. Lang. Association of American > < could pack the ballot with dummy candidates to split the vote — New Republic > b. obsolete 3. < those who sign contracts in blank are making it easy for the unethical dealer to pack the account — Facts About Buying Used Cars > • - pack cards IV. 1. obsolete 2. < many a dealer admitted privately that he added a pack … to allow more room for the discounts his customers expected — Time > V. chiefly Scotland < unco pack and thick thegither — Robert Burns > VI. variant of pac VII. • - pack it in |
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