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pack
Verb
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When you pack something, you put it in a container to carry with you.
Did you pack your swimming suit?
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When you pack a container, you put things in it to carry with you.
The students have all packed their bags and left for the summer.
It's time to pack up and go.
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If you pack a place or a container with something (or pack something in a place or container), you put a lot inside.
The hall was packed with visitors.
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If you pack something like snow or earth, you press it to make it take up less space.
All the runners had packed the earth hard.
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If you pack a gun, you carry it with you.
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If you pack something away, you put it away in a container.
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If you pack it in, you give up.
pack
Noun
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A pack is a container that things are sold in.
Cigarettes were selling for over $10 a pack.
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A pack is a bag used to carry things, usually on your back.
My spare clothes are in my pack.
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A pack of cards is a set of 52 playing cards.
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A pack is a group of animals, usually that hunt together.
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A pack of people is a group, usually not a nice group.
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A pack of lies is something that is completely untrue.
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An ice pack is something cold that you put on an injury.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
joint
Noun
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A place where two things meet but are still able to move.
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A place where two things join solidly.
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Any part of the body where two bones join, sometimes letting that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
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A way to join two pieces of wood together so that they interlock.
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A bar, restaurant, or nightclub.
It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.
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prison; jail.
I'm not breaking any more laws because I don't want to go back to the joint.
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A marijuana cigarette.
Let's smoke a joint and then go skateboarding.