packable

pack ¹  (pk)

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, packs

v.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.

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[Middle English pak, possibly of Low German origin.]

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packa·bili·ty n.

packa·ble adj.

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pack ²  (pk)

n.

Variant of pac.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

packable - capable of being packed