{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "pæk" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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”).", "From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "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.\nThe horses carried the packs across the plain." }, { "mean": "A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack" }, { "mean": "A multitude.\na pack of lies\na pack of complaints" }, { "mean": "A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective." }, { "mean": "A full set of playing cards\nWe were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack." }, { "mean": "The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.\ncut the pack" }, { "mean": "A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together." }, { "mean": "A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together." }, { "mean": "A flock of knots." }, { "mean": "A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.\na pack of thieves" }, { "mean": "A group of Cub Scouts." }, { "mean": "A shook of cask staves." }, { "mean": "A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously." }, { "mean": "A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.\nThe ship had to sail round the pack of ice." }, { "mean": "(medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment." }, { "mean": "(slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. (Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker." }, { "mean": "(rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.\nThe captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback." }, { "mean": "(roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack\nto pack goods in a box;  to pack fish\n", "(transitive) 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.\nto pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater\n", "(transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.\nThe doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.", "(transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.\nto pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice.", "(intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.", "(intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.\nthe goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well", "(intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.\nthe grouse or the perch begin to pack", "(transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission." ] }, { "mean": "(social) To cheat.", "submean": [ "(transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage\n", "(transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.\nto pack a jury\n", "(transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.\n", "(intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To load with a pack\nto pack a horse" }, { "mean": "(transitive, figurative) to load; to encumber." }, { "mean": "To move, send or carry.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.\nto pack a boy off to school\n", "(transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).", "(intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.\n", "(transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.\npacking heat" ] }, { "mean": "(transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, LGBT, of a drag king, trans man, etc.) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [], "kor": [] } } }