| query | If someone p____ a gun, they carry it.If someone packs a gun, they carry it. ...eight bodyguards, at least one of them packing a pistol. |
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| word | pack |
| full-definition | verb When you pack a bag, you put clothes and other things into it, because you are leaving a place or going on holiday. When I was 17, I packed my bags and left home. I decided to pack a few things and take the kids to my Mum's. I packed and said goodbye to Charlie. She left Frances to finish her packing. When people pack things, for example in a factory, they put them into containers or parcels so that they can be transported and sold. They offered me a job packing goods in a warehouse. Machines now exist to pack olives in jars. ...sardines packed in oil. His onions cost 9p a lb wholesale; packing and transport costs 10p. If people or things pack into a place or if they pack a place, there are so many of them that the place is full. Hundreds of thousands of people packed into the mosque. Seventy thousand people will pack the stadium. If someone packs a gun, they carry it. ...eight bodyguards, at least one of them packing a pistol. If someone packs a jury, committee, or meeting, they make sure that it includes people who support them. The government has packed the conference with its own supporters. The Prime Minister will not try to pack the House of Lords. noun A pack of things is a collection of them that is sold or given together in a box or bag. The club will send a free information pack. ...a pack of playing cards. She read the back of the pack and said it had the same ingredients. A pack is a bag containing your possessions that you carry on your back when you are travelling. I hid the money in my pack. You can refer to a group of people who go around together as a pack, especially when it is a large group that you feel threatened by. ...a pack of journalists eager to question him. Sal was the leader of the pack. A pack of wolves or dogs is a group of them that hunt together. A pack of playing cards is a complete set of playing cards. ...a pack of cards. ...shuffle the pack. |
| inflections | packspackingpackedpackingpacking |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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