packing
The action of the verb.
Noun
- The action of the verb.
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The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
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(sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
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The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
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(rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
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- As a concrete noun.
- A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly. - 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:
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Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
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Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating). -...
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A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
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Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
- Clipping of meatpacking.
Origin
From Middle English pakkynge; equivalent to pack (“verb and noun senses”) + -ing.
Forms
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Derived
body packing contract packing co-packing court-packing meatpacker meatpacking packing case packing-case packinghouse packingless packing list packing needle packing-needle packing noodle packing parka packing peanut packing plant packing room packing snow packing tape postage and packing subpacking underpacking wolf packing
Verb
- present participle and gerund of pack
Derived
close-packing copacking court packing fudge packing meatpacking packing for Perth packing fudge packing heat packing on pamper packing send someone packing sphere packing tail packing vacuum packing