Packing vs Container - What's the difference?
packing | container |
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
An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
(by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
(computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
* 2011 , Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools (page 187)
(computing, GUI) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
As nouns the difference between packing and container
is that packing is the action of the verb while container is a big container made of metal.As a verb packing
is .packing
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(head)Derived terms
* send someone packingNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* packing casecontainer
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Noun
(en noun)- As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.