Shock vs Pack - What's the difference?
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Sudden, heavy impact.
# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
To cause to be emotionally shocked.
To give an electric shock.
(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
* De Quincey
An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
* Tusser
* Thomson
(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
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.
Shock is a related term of pack.
As nouns the difference between shock and pack
is that shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook while pack is package, bundle, bunch, (unwieldy) bag or pack can be rabble, mob, vermin, rascals.As a verb shock
is to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.shock
English
(wikipedia shock)Alternative forms
* choque (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
Derived terms
* bow shock * culture shock * economic shock * electric shock * shock absorber * shock jock * shock mount * shock rock * shock site * shock therapy * shock wave, shockwave * shocker * shocking pink * shockproof * shockumentary * shockvertising * supply shock * technology shock * termination shock * toxic shock syndromeSynonyms
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*Verb
(en verb)- The disaster shocked the world.
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
- a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).
Anagrams
* ----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.