Sacking vs Packing - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sacking and packing

is that sacking is (uncountable) cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks) while packing is the action of the verb.

is that sacking is while packing is .

(uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).

The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.

(countable) Firing or termination of an employee.

He followed his sacking with a good drunk.

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* send someone packing

(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

* packing case