Pack vs Aggregate - What's the difference?
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A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
* 2005 , John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion?
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;
A group of Cub Scouts.
A shook of cask staves.
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
(slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
(rugby) The team on the field.
(label) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
# (label) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed , and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# (label) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
# (label) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam.
# (label) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
# (label) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass.
# (label) To gather in flocks or schools.
(label) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
# To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To move, send or carry.
# (label) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
# (label) To depart in haste; – generally with off'' or ''away .
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (1809-1892)
# To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.(rfex)
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.(rfex)
(mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
(botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
To amount in the aggregate to.
Pack is a related term of aggregate.
As nouns the difference between pack and aggregate
is that pack is package, bundle, bunch, (unwieldy) bag or pack can be rabble, mob, vermin, rascals while aggregate is .pack
English
Noun
(pack) (en noun)- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A pack of lies.
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack .
- African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack .
- a pack of thieves or knaves.
- The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
Synonyms
(full set of cards) deckDerived terms
* blister pack * bowl pack * daypack * Duluth pack * eight-pack * expansion pack * fanny pack * froth pack * ice pack * jet pack/jetpack/jet-pack * pack animal * pack ice * pack journalism * pack mentality * pack rat * RAM pack * rocket pack * service pack * six-packVerb
(en verb)- strange materials packed up with wonderful art
- Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .
George Goodchild
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.
- He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
- our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
- Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.
Synonyms
* stackAntonyms
* (make into a pack) unpackDerived terms
* pack away * pack fudge * pack heat * pack horse * pack in * pack off * pack on * pack train * pack up * packeraggregate
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars: clusterSee also
* twelve-tone technique * serialismReferences
* DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.Adjective
(en adjective)- aggregate glands.
Verb
(aggregat)- The aggregated soil .
- ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels .