pack的意思|pack的解释-里氏词典

Pack \Pack\ (p[a^]k), n. [Cf. {Pact}.]
A pact. [Obs.] --Daniel.

Pack \Pack\, n. [Akin to D. pak, G. pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa,
Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm. pak. Cf. {Packet}.]
1. 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. --Piers Plowman.

2. [Cf. {Peck}, n.] A number or quantity equal to the
contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. ``A pack
of sorrows.'' ``A pack of blessings.'' --Shak.

Note: ``In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of
wool, 240 lbs.'' --McElrath.

3. A group or quantity of connected or similar things; as, a
pack of lies; specifically:
(a) A full set of playing cards; a deck; also, the
assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre
pack.
(b) A number of wolves, hounds or dogs, hunting or kept
together; as, a wolf pack.
(c) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad
design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or
knaves.
(d) A shook of cask staves.
(e) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling
simultaneously.

4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together
more or less closely. --Kane.

5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic
practice, called {dry pack}, {wet pack}, {cold pack},
etc., according to the method of treatment.

6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS. p[=ae]can to deceive.] A
loose, lewd, or worthless person. See {Baggage}. [Obs.]
--Skelton.

7. (Med.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or
sheets called {dry pack}, {wet pack}, {cold pack}, etc.,
according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used,
put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact
or condition of being so treated.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

8. (Rugby Football) The forwards who compose one half of the
scrummage; also, the scrummage.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Pack animal}, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in
carrying packs.

{Pack and prime road} or {Pack and prime way}, a pack road or
bridle way.

{Pack cloth}, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering
packs or bales.

{Pack horse}. See {Pack animal} (above).

{Pack ice}. See def. 4, above.

{Pack moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Anacampsis
sarcitella}) which, in the larval state, is very
destructive to wool and woolen fabrics.

{Pack needle}, a needle for sewing with pack thread. --Piers
Plowman.

{Pack saddle}, a saddle made for supporting the load on a
pack animal. --Shak.

{Pack staff}, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's
staff.

{Pack train} (Mil.), a troop of pack animals.

Pack \Pack\, v. i.
1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles
securely for transportation.

2. 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.

3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the
perch begin to pack. [Eng.]

4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.

Poor Stella must pack off to town --Swift.

You shall pack,
And never more darken my doors again. --Tennyson.

5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes;
to join in collusion. [Obs.] ``Go pack with him.'' --Shak.

{To send packing}, to drive away; to send off roughly or in
disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. ``The parliament . .
. presently sent him packing.'' --South.

Pack \Pack\ (p[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packed} (p[a^]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Packing}.] [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan.
pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. See {Pack}, n.]
1. 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.

Strange materials packed up with wonderful art.
--Addison.

Where . . . the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed. --Shak.

2. 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.

3. To shuffle, sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as
to secure the game unfairly; to stack[3] (the deck).
[1913 Webster +PJC]

And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
--Pope.

4. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and
fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; to
stack[3]; as, to pack a jury or a caucus.

The expected council was dwindling into . . . a
packed assembly of Italian bishops. --Atterbury.

5. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.]

He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely
devised and packed by his enemies. --Fuller.

6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to
pack a horse.

Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey.
--Shack.

7. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings;
esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; to {send
packing}; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to
school.

He . . . must not die
Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
--Shak.

8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e.,
on the backs of men or beasts). [Western U.S.]

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

10. (Mech.) 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.

11. To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something;
specif. (Hydropathy), to envelop in a wet or dry sheet,
within numerous coverings.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

It would have added 8 cents to the 16 cent tax on a pack of cigarettes, and brought the 16-cent tax on beer six-packs to 36 cents.
They're high quality, look nice throughout the day and pack well," she says.
Rose Cipollone was so hooked on cigarettes that she smoked a pack while in labor with her first child, even though she had tried to quit, an addiction expert testified in support of her family's liability suit.
The American rice was being sold for Y1,850 (Pounds 11.78) per 5kg pack, about 10 per cent cheaper than Japanese rice. The import of foreign rice has been a serious political issue in Japan, provoking protests from farmers.
Whether it increases sales of sweets, petrol or toothpaste as effectively as the old jingles and pack shots is a different matter entirely.
Sales leaped to 1.5 million cases by 1987, with Proprietor's Reserve Chardonnay leading the pack.
Midwestern banking companies led the pack for the fourth consecutive quarter in both average return on assets and return on equity.
When Bush talks about a "six pack," he's not talking beer _ although he's been known to enjoy one on occasion _ but about wrapping successive horseshoes around the pole.
It can cost about $9.50 to grow, pack and ship a box of apples, so many of the state's 5,000 growers are still losing money or breaking even.
For example, once a product or a technology starts to pull ahead of the pack, its success tends to bring more success, more market share, more sales volume.
The man at the center of the storm is Mr. Gephardt, whose proposal holding out the threat of import quotas helped catapult him out of the Democratic pack even before former Sen. Gary Hart withdrew from the race.
"I don't know where all those political pundits are today but they ran for cover four years ago and they're likely to run for cover tomorrow," said former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont, back in the pack in the GOP race.
"You give him a pack or two or three or four depending on how greedy he is, and he'll go away," the driver says.
It took the four Canadians and nine Soviets 91 days to ski about 1,075 miles from the northernmost tip of the Soviet Union to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they left the shifting ice pack on Wednesday.
"His neighbors aren't trying to kill him, and he isn't so far ahead of the pack on the peace process with Israel as he used to be."
But instead, retailers said smokers often bought a pack, smoked one or two, passed around the rest and never came back for more.
That is, an arms-control agreement would be a political restorative for the Reagan presidency, a chance to pack 10 points onto Ronald Reagan's approval rating in some TV network's semiannual opinion poll (and keep Nancy happy in the bargain).
Nguyen endured two days of 100-degree temperatures and had only a nearly-empty container of water, a pack of cigarettes and a butane lighter when he was found.
The paper called Colombia's congress a pack of cowards this month because some members favored negotiations with the traffickers and opposed extraditing Colombians to face narcotics charges in the United States.
In a test in Minnesota, a single dog kept a small wolf pack from a bait station for 30 nights, until the wolves finally combined forces to drive off the dog, Coppinger said.
There was no answer at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, where the pack has its headquarters, and neither the Boy Scouts nor the police would give out the leaders' names.
Whether the quarry is Dan Quayle's draft status or Clarence Thomas's vocabulary, the pack tends to lose its common sense and sense of fairness.
Warnings and instructions about prevention should pack more wallop for those people than the blanket recommendations now given to everybody, he said.
Like most seasoned travelers, Mr. Huber has learned to pack light.
The pack tore a housewife's laundry into strips, ate a fisherman's nets and then stalked a tourist.
Once one of a pack of top-performing software companies, Microsoft has charged past rivals in recent years.
They chase new themes as a pack.
That would put the U.S. market "at the bottom of the pack," he adds.
Llamas, fabled pack animals in the Andes of South America, are often used for that purpose by the USDA's Forest Service when venturing into wilderness areas because they are less intrusive on the environment than horses and mules.
But when I pack up my bags in Washington, don't expect me to be happy to hear all this talk about the twilight of my life.

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