packing

IPA: pˈækɪŋ

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.]

Examples of "packing" in Sentences

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.