packing
The action of the verbThe action of the verb.: The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
Translations
1 languagesMeaning
8 sensesThe action of the verb.
(countable, uncountable)The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
As a concrete noun.
(countable, uncountable)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
The action of the verb.
(countable, uncountable)The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
More meanings 5
The action of the verb.
(countable, uncountable)The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
(countable, uncountable)The forming of players into a scrum.
As a concrete noun.
(countable, uncountable)Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
(countable, uncountable)Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
(countable, uncountable)A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- any material used especially to protect something
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
- carrying something in a pack on the back
Origin
From Middle English pakkynge; equivalent to pack (“verb and noun senses”) + -ing.From Middle English pakkynge; equivalent to pack (“verb and noun senses”) + -ing.
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Forms
plural: packingsSynonyms
4 synonyms- any material used especially to protect something:packing materialwadding
- the enclosure of something in a package or box:boxing
- carrying something in a pack on the back:backpacking
Word family
27 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.