<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a hiker's pack.</li><li>a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination): a six-pack of beer.</li><li>the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.: last year's salmon pack.</li><li>a group of people or things: a pack of lies.</li><li>a group of certain animals of the same kind, especially predatory ones: a pack of wolves.</li><li>a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.</li><li>a complete set of playing cards, usually 52 in number; deck.</li><li>a considerable area of pieces of floating ice driven or packed together.</li><li>a pile of metal sheets for hot-rolling together.</li><li>a wrapping of the body in wet or dry cloths for therapeutic purposes.</li><li>a rubble wall for supporting a roof.</li><li>a cosmetic material, usually of a pastelike consistency, applied either to the face or to the hair and scalp: a beauty pack; a mud pack.</li><li>a plot; conspiracy.</li><li>a low or worthless person.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to make into a pack or bundle.</li><li>to form into a group or compact mass.</li><li>to fill with anything compactly arranged: to pack a trunk.</li><li>to put into or arrange compactly in a trunk, valise, etc., as for traveling or storage.</li><li>to press or crowd together within; cram: The crowd packed the gallery.</li><li>to prepare for marketing by putting into containers or packages: to pack fruit for shipping.</li><li>to make airtight, vaportight, or watertight by stuffing: to pack the piston of a steam engine.</li><li>to cover or envelop with something pressed closely around.</li><li>to load, as with packs: We packed the mules and then set off for the lake.</li><li>to carry or wear, especially as part of one's usual equipment: to pack a gun.</li><li>to deliver (a powerful blow, strong message, etc.): He packs a better punch than any heavyweight in years.</li><li>to treat with a therapeutic pack.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load: pack animals.</li><li>compressed into a pack; packed.</li><li>used in or adapted for packing: pack equipment.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to dispatch: We packed the kids off to camp for the summer.</li><li>to leave hastily.</li><li>to relinquish or give up; quit: One failure was no reason to pack the whole experiment in.</li></ul>