Pack vs Ring - What's the difference?
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A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
* 2005 , John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion?
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;
A group of Cub Scouts.
A shook of cask staves.
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
(slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
(rugby) The team on the field.
(label) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
# (label) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
#*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed , and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# (label) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
# (label) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam.
# (label) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
# (label) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass.
# (label) To gather in flocks or schools.
(label) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
# To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To move, send or carry.
# (label) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
# (label) To depart in haste; – generally with off'' or ''away .
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (1809-1892)
# To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
(label) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
# A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
# A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
# A burner on a kitchen stove.
# In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
# An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
# (label) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
(label) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
# A circular group of people or objects.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= # (label) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
# (label) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as (Stonehenge).
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
* (1672–1710)
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
* (Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
(label) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
(label) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a .
(label) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, page 168.
(label) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring ).
* 2007 , Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
(label) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
Image:JO Atlanta 1996 - Boxe.jpg, A boxing ring .
Image:Finger ring.jpg, A ring on a finger.
Image:Tree rings.jpg, The rings of a tree.
Image:Georges Seurat 019.jpg, The circus ring .
Image:Bird ringing shandong.JPG, A ring on a bird's leg.
Image:Saturn eclipse.jpg, The rings of Saturn.
To surround or enclose.
(figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
* Shakespeare
(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
* 1877 , (Gerard Manley Hopkins), :
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
(colloquial) A telephone call.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
* Francis Bacon
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
* Fuller
Of a bell, to produce sound.
To make (a bell) produce sound.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
(figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
(transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
to resound, reverberate, echo.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* 1919 , (Boris Sidis), :
To produce music with bells.
(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
(algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
Image:Latex integers.svg, The ring of integers.
Pack is a related term of ring.
As nouns the difference between pack and ring
is that pack is package, bundle, bunch, (unwieldy) bag or pack can be rabble, mob, vermin, rascals while ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) .pack
English
Noun
(pack) (en noun)- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A pack of lies.
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack .
- African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack .
- a pack of thieves or knaves.
- The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
Synonyms
(full set of cards) deckDerived terms
* blister pack * bowl pack * daypack * Duluth pack * eight-pack * expansion pack * fanny pack * froth pack * ice pack * jet pack/jetpack/jet-pack * pack animal * pack ice * pack journalism * pack mentality * pack rat * RAM pack * rocket pack * service pack * six-packVerb
(en verb)- strange materials packed up with wonderful art
- Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .
George Goodchild
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.
- He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
- our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
- Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.
Synonyms
* stackAntonyms
* (make into a pack) unpackDerived terms
* pack away * pack fudge * pack heat * pack horse * pack in * pack off * pack on * pack train * pack up * packerring
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), also (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
- And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.
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- Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring , / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
- the ruling ring at Constantinople
- The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —
- Kernel Mode processes run in ring' 0, and User Mode processes run in ' ring 3.
Synonyms
* (circumscribing object) hoop, annulus, torusDerived terms
* annual ring * benzene ring * boxing ring * brass ring * bull ring * calamari ring * chainring * circus ring * class ring * claw ring * coffee ring * D ring * diamond ring * division ring * earring * egg ring * engagement ring * enringed * finger ring * Fomalhaut dust ring * front ring * gas ring * growth ring * key ring/keyring * life ring * limbal ring * local ring * mancude-ring system * neck ring * nose ring * O-ring * oath ring * Olympic Rings * onion ring * pinky ring * piscatory ring * piston ring * planetary ring * prize ring * quotient ring * (w, Ring a Ring o' Roses) * ring-a-levio * ring armor * ring bark/ringbark/ring-bark * ring-billed * ring binder * ring dance * ring dove/ringdove * ring dropper * ring fence * ring finger/ringfinger * ring game * ringlike * ring mail/ringmail * ring of death * Ring of Fire * ring of steel * ring of truth * ring ouzel * ring parrot * ring plover * ring-porous * ring pull * ring rat * ring road * ring snake * ring spanner * ring species * ring spot * ring stand * ring system * ring-tailed * ring theory * ring thrush * ring toplogy * ringed * ringbearer * ringleader * ringlet * ringlike * ringneck * ring-neck(ed) * ringpiece * ringside * ring spot * ringstraked * ringtail * ring-tail(ed) * ringworm * rubber ring * run rings around * signet ring * seal ring * slip ring * smoke ring * snap ring * spy ring * star ring * synonym ring * teething ring * thumb ring * toe ring * token ring * tongue ring * tree ring * wedding ringSee also
Verb
(en verb)- The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
- They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
- Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
- We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
- to ring a pig's snout
- Ring these fingers.
- .. how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing ..
Derived terms
* ringerEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
- The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
- The name has a nice ring to it.
- I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
- the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
- St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
- as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
Derived terms
* give a ring * ringtoneVerb
- The bells were ringing in the town.
- The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
- The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
- Whose mobile phone is ringing ?
- That does not ring true.
- I will ring you when we arrive.
- So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
- It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
- (Holder)
Derived terms
* ring a bell * ring back * ringer * ringing * ring false * ring off * ring off the hook * ring out * ring someone's bell * ring true * ring up * unringEtymology 3
A shortening of (etyl) ; coined by mathematician in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory , page 49.)Noun
(en noun)- The set of integers, , is the prototypical ring .
- The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set of even integers to be a ring.