Pack vs Clutter - What's the difference?

Pack is a related term of clutter.

As nouns the difference between pack and clutter

is that pack is package, bundle, bunch, (unwieldy) bag or pack can be rabble, mob, vermin, rascals while clutter is a confused disordered jumble of things.

As a verb clutter is

to fill something with.

pack

English

Noun

(pack) (en noun)

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.

The horses carried the packs across the plain.

A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

A pack of lies.

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.

We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a 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?

African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack .

A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;

a pack of thieves or knaves.

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.

The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.

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.

Synonyms

(full set of cards) deck

Derived 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-pack

Verb

(en verb)

(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)

strange materials packed up with wonderful art

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .

# (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.

#*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, 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)

Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.

#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)

The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.

# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.

# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

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.

(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey

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)

Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.

# 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)

Poor Stella must pack off to town.

#* (1809-1892)

You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.

# 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.

Synonyms

* stack

Antonyms

* (make into a pack) unpack

Derived terms

* pack away * pack fudge * pack heat * pack horse * pack in * pack off * pack on * pack train * pack up * packer

clutter

English

Noun

(-)

A confused disordered jumble of things.

* L'Estrange

He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter' by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the ' clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

(obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.

(Jonathan Swift)

Background echos, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.

(countable) A group of cats;

* 2008 , John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories , Introduction

Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.

Derived terms

* surface clutter * volume clutter

Verb

(en verb)

To fill something with .

*{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place

, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}

(obsolete) To clot or coagulate, like blood.

(Holland)

To make a confused noise; to bustle.

* Tennyson

It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.

(Webster 1913)