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Packed vs Packing - What's the difference?

packed | packing |

As verbs the difference between packed and packing

is that packed is (pack) while packing is .

As an adjective packed

is put into a package.

As a noun packing is

the action of the verb.

packed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pack)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Put into a package.
  • Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
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  • (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.
  • packing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * send someone packing

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • ::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column

    Derived terms

    * packing case