pack

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (physical, transitive) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
2. (physical, transitive) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
3. (physical, transitive) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
4. (physical, transitive) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
5. (intransitive, physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
6. (intransitive, physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
7. (intransitive, physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
8. (historical, physical, transitive) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
9. (transitive) To cheat.
10. (transitive) To cheat.
11. (transitive) To cheat.
12. (intransitive) To cheat.
13. (transitive) To load with a pack.
14. (figuratively, transitive) To load; to encumber.
15. (transitive) To move, send or carry.
16. (US, Western, transitive) To move, send or carry.
17. (intransitive) To move, send or carry.
18. (slang, transitive) To move, send or carry.
19. (slang, transitive) To move, send or carry.
20. (especially, intransitive) To move, send or carry.
21. (slang, transitive) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
22. (intransitive) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.

Concepts

meute

paquet

emballer

bande

empaqueter

📦

sac à dos

🎒

envelopper

charger

peloton

colis

bourrer

emballage

jeu

compact

pack

paquetage

avoir

cénacle

entasser

remplir

tasser

troupeau

raccourcir

recouvrir

sac

volée

boitier

coincer

empiler

faire ses bagages

ficeler

gang

paquet de cartes

paqueter

pluralité

s’entasser

travailler d’arrache-pied

bourrer a craquer

être emballé dans

être enveloppé par

matériel d’emballage

colispetit

paquet de la poste

ingroup

accumuler

inner circle

agripper

amasser

anneau

💍

bague

💍

Synonymes

package

📦

bundle

wrap

load

herd

flock

parcel

packet

fill

wrap up

gang

backpack

🎒

group

mob

crowd

stuff

bunch

deck

band

jam

envelop

bag

school

🏫

bale

wad

throng

cram

swarm

compress

compact

burden

carry

troop

drove

packing

knapsack

tamp

pile

press together

pride

party

🥳

stow

multitude

pack ice

set

sack

squeeze

battalion

box

📦

pad

Traductions

packen

imballare

empaquetar

📦

impacchettare

Rudel

pacco

πακέτο

paquete

pakken

pakje

manada

δέμα

einpacken

Pack

📦

verpacken

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pæk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pak

Hérité de ancien anglais: *pæcca

Appartenant à néerlandais: pak

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Pack

Appartenant à allemand: Pack

Appartenant à suédois: packe

Appartenant à islandais: pakka

Hérité de moyen anglais: pakken

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: packen

Appartenant à Middle Low German: packen

In summary

From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”).
Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).

Phrases

That's a pack of lies you're telling !

C'est un paquet de mensonges que vous dites!