noun. The act or process of one that packs.

noun. The processing and packaging of manufactured products, especially food products.

noun. A material used to prevent leakage or seepage, as around a pipe joint.

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noun. The insertion of gauze or other material into a body cavity or wound for therapeutic purposes.

noun. The material so used; a pack.

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noun. In halma, the stage of the game in which the player gets his men in order on the side of the board farthest from him.

noun. In shipbuilding, the pieces of wood used to fill up the space between the bilgeways and the bottom of the ship. A large number of long wooden wedges are placed transversely between the packing and bilgeways, and the weight of the vessel is transferred from the building-blocks to the packing before launching the vessel by driving in the wedges.

noun. In telephony, the crowding together or caking of the particles of carbon in a microphonic transmitter, whereby the sensitiveness of the instrument is impaired.

noun. Collusion; trickery; cheating.

noun. Any material used for filling an empty space, closing a joint, and the like; stuffing, as the filling of a piston or a well-tube.

noun. In printing, the fabric used on printing-presses between the iron platen or cylinder and the sheet to be printed.

noun. In masonry, small stones embedded in mortar, employed to fill up the vacant spaces in the middle of walls; rubble.

noun. The act of bringing together or manipulating to serve one's own purposes. See pack, transitive verb, 8.

noun. A system of packing in which metal is used, as metallic rings for piston-packing. Such rings are either so cast as to be elastic, or they are divided into segments and fitted with springs to press them against the interior of the cylinder so as to form a steam-tight contact.

noun. Tubes of lead or other soft metal filled with some vegetable material, such as hemp or cotton. The ends of the tubes are either forced or soldered together.

noun. The act or process of one who packs.

noun. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.

noun. A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.

noun. The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

noun. A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

noun. Same as Filling.

noun. A trick; collusion.

noun. the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord.

noun. a stuffing box. See under Stuffing.

noun. a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc.

noun. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston.

noun. A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

verb. Present participle of pack.

noun. The action of the verb.

noun. As a concrete noun.

noun. any material used especially to protect something

noun. the enclosure of something in a package or box

noun. carrying something in a pack on the back

"Another important point in packing is to keep food from becoming soggy in the box."

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