packing
IPA: pˈækɪŋ
noun
- The action of the verb.
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
- As a concrete noun.
- Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
- Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- Clipping of meatpacking. [(US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.]
adjective
- (slang) Having a large penis.
Advertisement
Examples of "packing" in Sentences
- I'm packing up for the trip.
- The packing material is pervious to the fluid.
- A packing insert is in the interior of the tubular packing.
- In the next week or so we will begin packing up our offices.
- Court-packing is not particularly difficult as a matter oflaw.
- It teaches them caution, such as in packing one's own parachute.
- The couple said they are going to begin packing their belongings.
- Another important point in packing is to keep food from becoming soggy in the box.
- I was not careful enough in packing it in the car, and when my husband opened the back door, its package fell out and it broke!
- The furniture as you can see all came wrapped in packing foam and when the desks and cabinets were finally arranged we had one gigantic mountain of fun.
- The phrase packing the Court—always pejorative, imputing one-sidedness—burst on the scene in 1936 in criticism of President Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to appoint a new Supreme Court justice every time one of the “nine old men” a phrase coined by the columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen reached the age of seventy and refused to step down.