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Packed vs Picked - What's the difference?

packed | picked |

As verbs the difference between packed and picked

is that packed is past tense of pack while picked is past tense of pick.

As adjectives the difference between packed and picked

is that packed is put into a package while picked is pointed; sharp.

packed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pack)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Put into a package.
  • Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed , crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
  • (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.

    • Related terms

    * packed lunch

    picked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pick)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pointed; sharp
  • * Chapman
    • Picked and polished.
  • * Mortimer
    • Let the stake be made picked at the top.
  • (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
    • the picked dogfish
  • (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 13:
    • He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  • * 1596 , , I. i. 193:
    • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
    (Webster 1913)