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Definition: Pack |
PackNoun1. A large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas". 2. A complete collection of similar things. 3. A small parcel (as of cigarettes or film). 4. An association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves". 5. An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. 6. A group of hunting animals. 7. A cream that cleanses and tones the skin. 8. A sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect. 9. A bundle (especially one carried on the back). Verb1. Arrange in a container; "pack the books into the boxes". 2. Fill to capacity; "This singer always packs the concert halls"; "They murder trial packed the court house". 3. Compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box". 4. Carry, as on one's back; "Pack your tents to the top of the mountain". 5. Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome; "pack a jury". 6. Have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains". 7. Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium". 8. Hike with a backpack. 9. Press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso". 10. : crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked". 11. : seal with packing; "pack the faucet". 12. : load with a pack. 13. : treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Pack \Pack\, noun. [Akin to Dutch pak, German pack, Danish pakke, Swedish packa, Icelandic pakki, Gaelic & Irish pac, Arm. pak. Compare to Packet.]. (references) |
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Computing | An ordered collection of punched cards bearing data for a particular run or a definite purpose. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A traditional unit weight(240lb)of wool. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A fabric bag or envelope in which a parachute is packed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | The inserting of a tampon ; a dressing is inserted firmly into a wound or body cavity, as the nose, uterus or vagina, principally for stopping hemorrhage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | To arrange castings in an annealing pot, with or without packing material, for the purpose of malleabilizing or heat treatment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A pillar, constructed from loose stones and dirt, built in the waste area or roadside to support the roof. See also:double packing; solid stowing; strip packing b. A pack built on a longwall face between the gate-side packs is called an intermediate pack c. Waste rock or timber support used for a roof over underground workings or used to fill excavations. Also called fill d. To cause the speedy subsidence of ore in the process of washing bybeating a keeve or tub with a hammer. (references) |
Occupations | An assembly containing a spinnerette, filter screen, gaskets, and sand through which polymer is passed to filter out impurities and form filaments by forcing polymer through spinnerette. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PackSynonyms: battalion (n), camp (n), clique (n), coterie (n), face pack (n), gang (n), ingroup (n), inner circle (n), large number (n), mob (n), multitude (n), ring (n), backpack (v), bundle (v), carry (v), chock up (v), compact (v), cram (v), jam (v), jampack (v), load down (v), pile (v), ram (v), take (v), tamp (v), tamp down (v), throng (v), wad (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: tamponade (medicine). |
| Antonym: unpack (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion. |
Assemblage | Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook. |
Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. | |
Carrier | Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud. |
Circumscription | Enfold, bury, encase, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up; (invest); embay, embosom. |
Contraction | Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain. |
Departure | Verb: depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from. |
Ejection | Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to. |
Hindrance | Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. |
Location | Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in. |
Preparation | Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. |
Support | Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel. |
Unimportance | Joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge; (unmeaning); fiddlestick, fiddlestick end; pack of nonsense, mere farce. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and John Landis.) I think what she's trying to say is that you black boys pack too much meat (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) Brick Top's way of doing business is with a stun gun, a plastic bag, a roll of tape, and a pack of hungry pigs (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Let's say all your life, for breakfast, you're eating from a Kellogg's variety pack. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) What I mean, sir, is if you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler with a clean line of sight well, pack your bags, boys (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) | |
Lyrics | Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) Can pack our bags and say goodbye (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) If I can go, contigo, I'll pack my things, soon as you say (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez) If I pack the car and leave this town (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) That's why I pack my .45 (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio) | |
Clever | When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | A pack of pesky pixies. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Adult Party Pack (1998) Wolf Pack (1974) Pack Train (1953) The Green Pack (1947) Pack Up Your Troubles (1940) | |
Song Titles | Leader of the Pack (performing artist: The Shangri-Las) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sideview of a pack of cigarettes showing the Surgeon General's warning label. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | HAZMAT PLSS Pack. Credit: NASA. |
 | HAZMAT Suit, Pack, and Vehicle. Credit: NASA. |  | Observer Thomas and pack Triangulation party of Wilbur A. Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Pack train at the top of Mauna Loa Astro Party of E. J. Brown World Longitude Network. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Killer whale cruising the pack ice looking for seals. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | "The Nimrod Held Up by the Pack Ice". In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 78. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Young fisherman helps pack up part of the day's catch of yellowtail snapper. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | U.S. special forces troops use pack animals. |  | One of the 8th Fighter Wing's newly upgraded F-16 Fighting Falcons touches down for the first time at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 17. The aircraft is one of three that arrived at the Wolf Pack, marking the transition from a primarily daytime. |
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| "Pack of cards" by Christian Simon Commentary: "Some cards to play." | "Belio 01" by Jesse Braun Commentary: "Belio magazine pack." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Pack of hound dogs barking. |
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Haliburton | To carry care to bed, is to sleep with a pack on your back. |
Oliver Goldsmith | He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. |
Rudyard Kipling | For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. |
Voltaire | History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was with great difficulty that Toussaint obtained permission to pack up a little linen and clothing and a few toilet articles |
The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad got out his tobacco and blew a brown paper free of the pack and rolled a cigarette |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The woods ring again, and yet no fox bursts forth on to the open level of the pond, nor following pack pursuing their Actaeon |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Do not pack the refrigerator. (references) | |
Avoid coming into contact with rodents and rodent burrows or disturbing dens (such as pack rat nests). (references) | ||
Try to pack the highest possible food value into every meal and snack so that you will be eating enough calories and vital nutrients. (references) | ||
Business | For women, the winning packaging presentation typically was a bright, contemporary pack in primary colors. (references) | |
Over 90% of the pharmaceuticals manufactured domestically are inexpensive generic drugs (the average cost of a pack of medicine does not exceed 1.50 USD, compared with 9.00 USD in EU countries). (references) | ||
The media will expect a formal presentation and must always be provided with pertinent and professionally produced information “press pack.” Opportunity for questions to an authoritative spokesperson must be provided and a U.K. contact made available for follow-up inquiries. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | When blasphemy and other religious cases are brought to court, extremists often pack the courtroom and make public threats about the consequences of an acquittal. (references) |
Economic History | Tanzania | Over the decade to 2000, the mining sector led the pack, absorbing US$ 0.7 billion, only between 1997 and 1999. The total investment in the agricultural sector was US$ 341,807.50, compared with the manufacturing sector which absorbed an estimated US$ 1.5 million. (references) |
Taiwan | Principal market opportunities for U.S. suppliers are seen in two areas: sales of concentrate to local packers and sales of branded retail pack juices to local importers / distributors. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The Government stated that the additional appointments were necessary to handle an increase in workload; however, some members of the legal community criticized the action as an attempt by Mugabe to pack the court. (references) |
Trade | New Zealand | For other food products, nutritional information is expected to be a prerequisite by early 2002. Use, or pack on dates are currently not required except for bakery products. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation. Altgeld upon his incandescend bed Lay, an attendant demon at his head. "O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief -- Some respite from the roast, however brief." "Remember how on earth I pardoned all Your friends in Illinois when held in thrall." "Unhappy soul! for that alone you squirm O'er fire unquenched, a never-dying worm. "Yet, for I pity your uneasy state, Your doom I'll mollify and pains abate. "Naught, for a season, shall your comfort mar, Not even the memory of who you are." Throughout eternal space dread silence fell; Heaven trembled as Compassion entered Hell. "As long, sweet demon, let my respite be As, governing down here, I'd respite thee." "As long, poor soul, as any of the pack You thrust from jail consumed in getting back." A genial chill affected Altgeld's hide While they were turning him on t'other side. Joel Spate Woop |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jack Lemmon | I am on the last great journey here, one we all got to take. Maybe I can teach people what to pack for the trip. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | People who smoke should pay more for a pack of cigarettes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Pack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.77% of the time. "Pack" is used about 2,970 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.77% | 2,221 | 3,961 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.52% | 490 | 12,222 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.51% | 253 | 18,652 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.1% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,970 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pack" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pack | Last name | 7,000 | 1,681 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Polyair Inter Pack Inc | Japan | Chuoh Pack Industry Co., Ltd |
| Spain | Grupo Picking Pack SA | Thailand | Nippon Pack (Thailand) Public Company Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pack": a pack of nonsense ♦ back pack ♦ blister pack ♦ bubble pack ♦ card pack ♦ chest pack ♦ cigarette pack ♦ cold pack ♦ consolidated pack ♦ dense pack ♦ disc pack ♦ disk pack ♦ dry pack ♦ economy pack ♦ face pack ♦ field pack ♦ horseshoe parachute pack ♦ ice pack ♦ imagery pack ♦ large pack ♦ mud pack ♦ outer pack ♦ pack a gun ♦ pack a punch ♦ Pack and prime ♦ pack and prime road ♦ pack and prime way ♦ pack animal ♦ pack artillery ♦ pack away ♦ pack badly ♦ pack cloth ♦ pack down ♦ pack drill ♦ pack elastics ♦ pack filed strength ♦ pack full ♦ Pack herse ♦ pack horse ♦ pack ice ♦ pack in ♦ pack in case ♦ pack it in ♦ pack it in! ♦ pack moth ♦ pack mule ♦ pack needle ♦ pack of cards ♦ pack of cigarettes ♦ pack of dogs ♦ pack of hounds ♦ pack of lies ♦ pack of nonsense ♦ pack off ♦ pack off! ♦ pack on ♦ pack on all sail ♦ pack one's bags ♦ pack one's traps ♦ pack out ♦ pack rat ♦ pack riding ♦ pack rolling ♦ pack saddle ♦ pack staff ♦ pack tent ♦ pack thread ♦ pack together ♦ pack trail ♦ pack train ♦ pack up ♦ pack up a tent ♦ pack up and be off ♦ pack up bag and baggage ♦ pack up one's bits and pieces ♦ pack up one's traps ♦ pack up your things! ♦ pack well ♦ power pack ♦ primal pack of bacon ♦ SIL pack ♦ tell a pack of lies ♦ the hole pack ♦ wet pack ♦ wolf pack ♦ year pack. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pack": pack-animals, pack-ass, pack-bag, pack-bridge, pack-can, pack-cloth, pack-donkey, pack-'em-in, pack-flat, pack-horse, pack-horsed, pack-horses, pack-hunting, pack-ice, pack-man, pack-mules, pack-running, pack-sheet, pack-size, pack-tour, pack-trail, pack-train, pack-years. | |
Ending with "pack": brat-pack, eight-pack, flat-pack, four-pack, ice-pack, on-pack, pre-pack. | |
Containing "pack": back-pack it. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gregory pack | 2,019 | camel fanny lyrics pack toe | 172 |
fanny pack | 1,583 | the rat pack | 168 |
codec nimo pack | 795 | ice pack | 164 |
hydration pack | 474 | battery pack | 163 |
day pack | 430 | xp service pack | 160 |
service pack | 379 | 2000 4 pack service window | 157 |
pack | 340 | cs map pack | 143 |
codec pack | 329 | service pack 1 | 140 |
rat pack | 328 | you get a six pack | 132 |
service pack window xp | 322 | fusion pack | 127 |
window service pack | 297 | map pack | 124 |
camel fanny pack toe | 282 | power pack | 119 |
six pack | 278 | code download nimo pack | 116 |
six pack of abs | 257 | window 2000 service pack 3 | 113 |
counter strike map pack | 251 | window 2000 service pack 2 | 112 |
window xp service pack 1 | 248 | butt pack | 108 |
window 2000 service pack | 201 | jet pack | 106 |
fanny lyrics pack | 191 | service pack 3 | 106 |
codec k lite pack | 190 | 6 pack of abs | 104 |
pack trip | 174 | window 98 service pack | 103 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pakket, pak (package, wrap, wrap up). (various references) | |
Albanian | prodhim i konservuar, pece, palë letrash bixhozi, pako (bundle, carton, package, packet, parcel, ream, roll), paketoj (do up, package, parcel), ngjesh (clench, compact, compress, gird on the sword, huddle, jam, jostle, masticate, mix, ram down, squeeze, tamp), ambalazhoj (case, encase, package, wrap, wrap up), deng (bale, bundle, package, truss), fus (accept for, Bury, cram into, drive, embroil, enclose, engrain, enter, get in, inclose, interpolate, introduce, launch, mix in, plunge, poke, pour into, press in, put, put in the picture, set, shove, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, work in), grup hajdutësh, hermetizoj, kompresë (compress, stupe), kope (band, drove, herd, parcel, troop), mbaj revole, mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), ambalazhi, ngarkoj kafshën, varg gënjeshtrash (web), rras njerëzit, rrasen, sasi (amount, body, greatness, intake, lot, lump, mass, number, quantity, quantum, run, sum, worth), tufë qensh (kennel), mbush sallën. (various references) | |
Arabic | سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, wad, weir), بالة (bale), باكو سجاير, بلتون, شحن (charge, forward, freight, freightage, haulage, load, truck), رزم (bale, bundle, package, packing, parcel, wrap up), رزمة (bundle, package, parcel), رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim), أصلح للرزم, إرتحل (dislodge, fare, migrate), إختار (choose, cull, discriminate, elect, name, nominate, opt, pick out, plump for, pronounce, select, single, slate, tag, take, tap), إنصرف على عجل, طغمة (junta, party, troop), عالج (address, cover, cure, deal, debug, doctor, dose, fix, handle, heal, manage, medicine, process, rectify, remedy, treat), بردعة, حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concentrate, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, gather, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mob, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pile up, press, rabble, recall, regiment, throng), كومة (bank, heap, mound, pilau, pile, shock, stack), مجموعة (aggregate, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, battery, bloc, block, body, case, collection, combination, community, company, compilation, complex, gathering, group, list, party, series, set, squad, suit, system, team, troop), لعبة ورق (blackjack), وضب, حقيبة تحمل على الظهر, عصابة (bandage, gang, herd, ring, robbers, set, shower, swathe, tape), حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), زمرة (clan, clique, coterie, faction, group, knot, party, squad), تكوم (settle down to, settling, squash), تعطل (breakdown, conk, fall due on, give out, heave to, idleness, inactivity, jam, paralysis, spoil), تركه فجأة (chuck), تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bank, bulk, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pile, piling up, press), سافر (barefaced, cover, cruise, fare, fly, go, hike, journey, leave, ride, set off, tour, travel, voyage), كمادة (cataplasm, compress, poultice, stupe), حزمة (beam, bob, bunch, bundle, parcel, pencil, sheaf, tuft, wisp). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нападатели, денк (bale, holdall, package), войнишка торба (holdall, kit, kitbag, valise), обвивам с морски компреси, обвивам (encase, entwine, envelop, fold, jacket, mantle, twine, veil, wind), опаковъчен (packing, wrapping), опаковам (do, pack away, pack up, put up, wrap), нося товар (bear a load), нося (bear, bring, bring forth, bring round, carry, float, give, sweep along, take), нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, tell, trim), вързоп (bundle, package, packet, truss), натрупвам се (accrue), глутница (kennel), маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes), банда (band, bandwagon, crew, gang, mob, push, ring, set), бала (bale, package), пренасям товар, парашут в калъф, пачка (batch, packet, sheaf, wad), пакетирам (make up, parcel, prepackage, put up, wrap up), пакет (bundle, package, packet, parcel), имам силно въздействие, натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), торба (bag, bagful, grab-all, pouch, receptacle, sack, swag, wallet), събирам се на глутница, стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pinch, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, trim, truss), стока на амбулантен търговец (pedlary), ято (bevy, Covey, flight, flock, gaggle, skein, wing), стадо (bunch, flock, herd, horde, mob, pride, troop), увивам (cockle, coddle, enfold, enlace, enwrap, muffle, twine, wind, wrap, wrap up), свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, lash, link, marry, mate, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss, weld), слягам се (settle down, slump), сбивам се (clash, tangle), войнишка раница (kit, kitbag, valise), хайка (battue, posse), събирам се на стадо, товаря (burden, charge, freight, load, weight), товарен (freight), топ (bundle, cannon, gun, masthead, piece, roll, rook), тесте (deck), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), консервирам (can, conserve, cure, pot, preserve, process, put down, put up, salt down, tin), компрес (application, compress, fomentation, packing sheet, pledget), козметична маска (mask), колада (deck), раница (carrier bag, haversack, knapsack, rucksack). (various references) | |
Chinese | 包裝 (package), 包扎 (bind up, wrap up), 叠板. (various references) | |
Czech | plující led, balík (block, bumpkin, bundle, Hick, package, packet), břemeno (burden, Comber, drain, encumbrance, onus, weight), komplex (complex, hang up), krabice (box, case, cist, packet), nacpat (cram, crowd, jam, stuff), naložit (can, embus, fill, Lade, load, load up, pickle, put up, Stow), naplnit (fill, fill up, prepossess), balíèek (package, packet, parcel), rychle odeslat, zabalit (do up, enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, make up, pack up, package, parcel up, turn in, wrap, wrap up), sbalit (bag, nab, nobble, pack up), sebranka (herd, vermin), složit (close, compose, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, make out, piece together, pile up, put down, put together, set down, tackle, take, take down, throw), spousta (crowd, heap, heaps of, host, legion, load, lots, Peck, plenty, spate, stack, volume), stádo (drove, flock, herd), svazek (alliance, bunch, sheaf, volume, wad), tlaèit (hurt, jostle, pinch, press, push, throng, thrust, trundle, wheel), zábal, ranec (bundle, fardel, fascicle). (various references) | |
Danish | pakke (package, packet, parcel, wrap up), indpakke (package, wrap up). (various references) | |
Dutch | inpakken (package, wrap up), verpakken (package, wrap, wrap up), stel (bevy, collection, good great group, group, heap, herd, outfit, pair, put, set, suit), pakken (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, get, grapple, lay hold of, package, pick up, take, wrap up), pak (costume, layer, outfit, suit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pako, paki, enpaki (package, wrap up). (various references) | |
Faeroese | pakki, pakka, savn (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, museum, set), rúgva (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pile, set, stack), hópur (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, group, heap, herd, lump, mass, multitude, pile, set, swarm), flokkur (are, bevy, class, cluster, collection, faction, gang, group, heap, herd, party, set, side, squad, swarm, troop, troupe, type), bjálva, balla. (various references) | |
Farsi | یکدست ورق بازی , فرستادن (Dispatch, Forward, Issue, Refer, Send, Ship), کوله پشتی (Knapsack, Swag), قراردادن (Fix, Include, Lodge, Park, Plumb, Pose, Posit, Posture, Put, Row, Set), گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), توده کردن (Aggregate, Amass, Cumulate, Heap, Hill, Lump, Pile, Ruck, Shock, Stack, Stockpile), بقچه (Bundle, Truss), بسته بندی کردن (Package, Packet, Parcel, Wrap), بزورچپاندن , بارکردن (Burden, Load, Prime, Weight), بردن (Abstract, Bear, Carry, Conduct, Convey, Drive, Horse, Lead, Port, Portage, Propel, Remove, Snatch, Steer, Take, Transport, Win). (various references) | |
Finnish | pakata, lauma (drove, flock, herd, horde, host, swarm). (various references) | |
French | emballer (pack up, package, parcel), paquet (package, packet, parcel), meute, bande, ballot (package), balle. (various references) | |
Frisian | ynpakke (package, wrap up). (various references) | |
German | verpacken (bag, box, package, packing, wrap, wrap up), packen (bundle, catch, clench, enthrall, go about, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, heap, make up, manage, pack up, package, packing, pile, seize, stack, Stow, thrill, to pack, wrap up), einpacken (box up, pack in, pack up, package, parcel, put in, to pack, to wrap up, up, wrap, wrap up), packung (ballast, box, compress, gasket, package, packet, pitching, poultice), meute (mob, pack of hounds). (various references) | |
Greek | συσκευάζω (do up, wrap), πακέτο (package, packet, parcel), πακετάρω (crate, pack up, package), δέμα (bundle, package, packet, parcel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ילקוט גב, לארוז (package, tie), לדחוק (importune, oppress, pinch, press, squeeze, thrust, urge), לצרור (bundle, package, parcel, truss, wrap), תרמיל גב (knapsack, rucksack), חבילה (bundle, package, parcel, sheaf, wad, wisp). (various references) | |
Hungarian | poggyász (baggage, impedimenta, kit, luggage), málha (impedimenta), csomag (baggage, bundle, deck, kit, luggage, package, packet, parcel, swathe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pak (dad), mengemas (wrap), kumpulan (corpus, gathering, jumble, set), kemas (wrap), bungkus (casing, hull, package, parcel, wrapper), ambinan (knapsack). (various references) | |
Italian | pacco (carton, package, packet, parcel), muta (molting, moulting, shedding, wet suit), impaccare (grasp, grip, hold tight, seize), imballare (bale, case, pack up, wrap), imballaggio (boxing, package, packaging, packing), avvolgere (befog, cloak, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inclose, lap, muffle, package, reel, roll, shroud, wind, wrap, wrap up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 荷駄 (horseload), 罨法 (poultice), パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."), 一纏め (bunch, bundle), 一纏 (bunch, bundle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パック (puck), ひとまとめ (bunch, bundle), にだ (horseload), あんぽう (poultice). (various references) | |
Korean | 꾸러미. (various references) | |
Manx | paggey sidooragh, paggey drommey, paggey (deck, wad, wadding), paggal (packing), kereen (comb, coxcomb, crest, topknot), bundeil (bale, bundle, package). (various references) | |
Papiamen | paketá (package, wrap up), kuadria (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, set), grupo (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, set), empaketá (package, wrap up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pacote (bundle, packet, parcel), embalar (box, cradle, dandle, lull, rock), matilha, enfardar (bale, fill in), empacotar (bale, bundle, case, fill in), embrulho (baggage, bundle, luggage, package, parcel). (various references) | |
Romanian | împacheta (bale, do up, encase, package, packet, wrap, wrap up). (various references) | |
Russian | колода (chump, deck, junk, wood block, woodblock), паковать, пачка (batch, packet, patch, tutu), запаковывать (wrap up), заполнять (brim with, brimming, brimming with, fill, fill in, fill out, fill up, fill with, filling, pad, populate, populated, populating), множество (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a world of, abundance, array, bags of, cloud, crowd, dozens, ensemble, great number, heap, legion, manifold, mass, mountain, multiples, multiplicity, multitude, ocean, oodles, orgy, pile, plurality, set, stacks of, the many, the million, thousand, throng), набивка (compression, filling, gasket, padding, stuffing, wadding), набить (fill, stuff), вьюк, вьючить, вьючный, пакет (batch, convolute, package, packet, parcel, pkg), кипа (bale, pile, stack), стая (bevy, flight, flock, horde, muster, pride, school, swarm, troop), консервировать (can, cure, preserve), тюк (bale), ранец (haversack, kit, knapsack, satchel), свора (couple, doggery, leash), упаковочный, упаковка (encasement, package, packing), упаковывать (encase), упаковывать упаковка (packing), узел (bundle, fardel, hitch, hub, joint, junction, kink, knar, knot, knur, knurl, node, nodes, tie, tubercle, unit), увязать (pack up, tie, tie up), укладываться, группа (bank, bevy, bunch, clump, cluster, cohort, covey, encircling force, gang, group, lot, packet, parcel, party, series, shapeup, team). (various references) | |
Scottish | stobh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paklica, paklo, pakovati, spakovati (rig), nositi (bear, bring, buffet, carry, have, hold, take, tote, waft, wear), oblog (compress, stupe), mnoštvo (array, crop, grist, heap, lashings, legion, lot, lot: the lot, lots of, mass, million: the million, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, oodles, plenty, raft, scads, shoal, slew), sabiti (compress, condense, impact, press), uviti (convolute, curl, implicate, roll, twist, wrap), svežanj (bunch, bundle, cluster, fardel, fascicle, trousseau, truss), tovar (bulk, cargo, carload, cart load, lading, load), tovarni, umotati u obloge, upakovati (do up), uvijati (imply, scroll, wrap), ranac (backpack, kit bag, kitbag, knapsack, rucksack). (various references) | |
Spanish | paquete (Dandy, gift, joke, lump, outstanding person, package, packet, paper, parcel, task, trick, truss), empacar (bale, package, wrap up), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), emplasto (makeshift, plaster, poultice, weakling), embalar (bale, package, put up, sprint, wrap), compresa (compress, envelope, sanitary napkin). (various references) | |
Swedish | packa (cram, stow, stuff), packe (bale, bunch, bundle, cluster, package, parcel, sheaf, wad), svärm (are, bevy, cloud, cluster, collection, flight, group, heap, herd, hive, set, swarm), koppel (are, bevy, cluster, collection, coupling, cry, dog lead, group, heap, herd, lead, leash, set), flock (are, bevy, cluster, collection, Covey, crowd, flight, flock, floss, group, heap, herd, horde, party, set, umbel), förpackning (package, packaging, packing), bal (bale, ball, dance, package, promenade). (various references) | |
Turkish | paketlemek (do up, enfold, infold, pack up, package, packet, wrap, wrap up), paket (cover, package, packet, parcel, takeaway, takeout), yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), ambalajlamak (package, packet, wrap up), bavul hazırlamak, bohça (bundle, fardel, package, packet), defetmek (banish, beat off, dispel, drive away, fence off, fend off, fight off, pack off, repel, send smb. packing, send to the rightabout, stave off, turn away, vamoose, vamose), defolup gitmek (beat it, do a fade-out, go away, shove off, split), deste (bouquet, bunch, bundle, deck, sheaf), eşyalarını toplamak (pack up), istiflemek (garner, hive, hive up, stock up), sırt çantası (back-pack, field pack, haversack, knapsack, rucksack), ambalaj, vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), yığmak (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter, clutter up, congest, conglomerate, drift, dump, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pile, pile on, pile up, put up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), sürü (cartload, cloud, Covey, crew, crowd, drove, flock, fold, gang, herd, horde, regiment, run, shoal, swarm), sargı (band, bandage, dressing, fascia, roller bandage, stall, swathe, wrap, wrapping, wrappings), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), semer (pack saddle, packsaddle, saddle), tıka basa doldurmak (choke up, clutter, clutter up, cram, encumber, glut, gorge, Stoke, tuck away), toparlanmak (collect oneself, gather, gather strength, pack up, pick oneself up, pick up, pick up one's strenght, pull oneself together, rally, tidy oneself up, tidy up), toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), kütle (aggregate, block, body, bulk, force, gob, group, mass). (various references) | |
Turkmen | petde (small stack), gamlaюdyrmak (stuff). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ущільнюватися (firm, firm up, thicken), ущільнювати (compact, consolidate, firm, impact, obturate, thicken), спорядження (apparel, equipage, outfit, rigging, webbing), консервувати (can, conserve, cure, preserve, tin), набиватися, зграя (brood, drove, flock, gaggle, nest), заповнювати (bank, lard, occupy, stuff, write in), збиратися зграями (pod), безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, ton, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world), піддаватися упакуванню, пакувати (package), пакет (bundle, packet), пака (bale, package), пак. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đắp khăn ướt, loạt (catena, crop), lô bộ, gói (bundle, parcel), bó (bunch, cluster). (various references) | |
Welsh | pwn (bale, burden), pacio, pac (baggage, bundle), tocyn (heap, hillock, ticket), sypio (bundle, heap), cnud. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arta, artabitur, artabuntur, artavitque, arto, artor, confertis, densabuntur, sarcina, vas, vasa, vasaque, vase, vasi, vasis, vaso, vasorum, vasorumque, vasseni. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | trusser. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pack": packabilities, packability, packable, package, packaged, packager, packagers, packages, packaging, packboard, packboards, packed, packer, packers, packet, packeted, packeting, packets, packhorse, packhorses, packing, packinghouse, packinghouses, packings, packly, packman, packmen, packness, packnesses, packs, packsack, packsacks, packsaddle, packsaddles, packthread, packthreads, packwax, packwaxes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pack": backpack, bipack, calpack, manpack, mudpack, portapack, prepack, repack, retropack, shoepack, snowpack, tripack, unpack, woolpack. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pack": backpacked, backpacker, backpackers, backpacking, backpacks, bipacks, calpacks, meatpacking, meatpackings, mispackage, mispackaged, mispackages, mispackaging, mudpacks, overpackage, overpackaged, overpackages, overpackaging, portapacks, prepackage, prepackaged, prepackages, prepackaging, prepacked, prepacking, prepacks, repackage, repackaged, repackager, repackagers, repackages, repackaging, repacked, repacking, repacks, retropacks, shoepacks, snowpacks, spackle, spackled, spackles, spackling, tripacks, unpacked, unpacker, unpackers, unpacking, unpacks, woolpacks. (additional references) | |
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"Pack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ack, apack, epack, paak, pacca, pach, Paci, packa, packy, pacn, pacy, padc, paek, Pagk, paik, pak, pake, paki, pakka, pakki, Pakok, Pakoku, pank, Pasik, Passk, patk, Pauk, pcak, Peack, Phac, picc, Pieck, pinck, pisk, piuck, pixk, Pmac, Ptac, Ptak, Pucik, Pyck, upack, zack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pack" (pronounced pa"k) |
| 3 | p a" k | Pac, repack, unpack. |
| 2 | -a" k | aback, attack, back, black, clack, crack, Dak, Flack, flak, hack, Jack, knack, lac, lack, Mac, Mack, plack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, slack, smack, snack, stack, tack, track, wack, whack, wrack, yack, Yak. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-k-p" | |
-1 letter: cap, pac. | |
-2 letters: ka, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-k-p" | |
+1 letter: packs, plack, pucka. | |
+2 letters: backup, bipack, packed, packer, packet, packly, pickax, placks, repack, skycap, unpack, yapock. | |
+3 letters: backups, bipacks, calpack, caprock, champak, crackup, cupcake, hopsack, jackpot, kneecap, manpack, mudpack, package, packers, packets, packing, packman, packmen, packwax, paddock, padlock, pancake, panicky, payback, peacock, pickaxe, placket, pollack, prepack, repacks, skycaps, spackle, stackup, tripack, unpacks, wickape, yapocks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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