Placket vs Packet - What's the difference?
placket | packet |
a slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings
:* 1922': Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the '''placket of her skirt. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
:* 2001': When the '''placket of his shirt gave way, the stones tore freely into the skin on his chest and back, and he no longer imagined Lucy Hartley enjoying his guitar serenades – he wondered if he would get to the roof alive. — Glen David Gold, ''Carter Beats the Devil
(obsolete) A petticoat, especially an under petticoat.
(obsolete, slang, by extension) A woman.
(obsolete) A woman's pocket.
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
(lb) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel ().
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*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet , the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
(lb) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.
(lb) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks ().
(lb) A plastic bag.
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To make up into a packet or bundle.
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
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To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
* 2007 , Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, ?Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
As nouns the difference between placket and packet
is that placket is a slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings while packet is a small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.As a verb packet is
to make up into a packet or bundle.placket
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Noun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
packet
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Alternative forms
* pacquet (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Wendy Knowler], ''[http://www.iol.co.za/blogs/wendy-knowler-s-consumer-watch-1.1608/plastic-packets-who-bags-the-profits-1.1356896 Plastic 'packets : who bags the profits?
Verb
(en verb)- Her husband was packeted to France.
- Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting —tend to be of limited duration