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PACKET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boat for carrying mail
Synonyms:
mail boat; mailboat; packet; packet boat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("packet" is a kind of...):
boat (a small vessel for travel on water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small package or bundle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("packet" is a kind of...):
package; parcel (a wrapped container)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packet"):
deck (street name for a packet of illegal drugs)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(computer science) a message or message fragment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("packet" is a kind of...):
message (a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A collection of things wrapped or boxed together
Synonyms:
bundle; package; packet; parcel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("packet" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packet"):
wisp (a small bundle of straw or hay)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb packet
Context examples:
She opened the packet; it was too surely so;—a note from Mrs. Weston to herself, ushered in the letter from Frank to Mrs. Weston.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Neutrophils are born in bone marrow and carry chemicals in hundreds of densely filled packets called granules, which look like dark spots under a microscope.
(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)
Communication at these synapses happens when one neuron fires off packets of GABA molecules that are then quickly detected by proteins called GABA type A (GABAA) receptors on neighboring neurons.
(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)
As one of these packets contained characteristic notes from the party, we will rob an imaginary mail, and read them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Such paper could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly strong and stiff.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other examples include aluminum foil packets into which alcohol swabs and pledgets are placed.
(Packet, NCI Thesaurus)
His business was so nearly concluded as to justify him in proposing to take his passage in the September packet, and he consequently looked forward with the hope of being with his beloved family again early in November.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Finally he descended and carried up two other packets of mixed goods—a box of ammunition and a number of other things, all of which we got across by throwing our rope to him and hauling it back.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
What is here told, he laid his hand heavily and gravely on the packet of papers as he spoke, may be the beginning of the end to you and me and many another; or it may sound the knell of the Un-Dead who walk the earth.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
