packet en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈpæk.ɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpæk.ət/ weak vowel merger
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈpæk.ɪt/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.
Meanings
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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
(archaic) a travel bag containing clothing, nightwear and other accessories.
Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
a packet of letters
a packet of biscuits
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Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
Fishguard Harbour, constructed some 60 years ago by the G.W.R., became the packet port for G.W.R. services to Waterford and Rosslare - the latter port itself was a new venture partly under G.W.R. auspices - and to Cork.
1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.
1960 May 14, K. A. Murray, “Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
- A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
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A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection.
2024 September 28 (last accessed), “Protocol”, in wiki.vg, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2024, Definitions:
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(South-Africa) A plastic bag.
2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
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(slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet.
2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 157:
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(informal) A large amount of money.
It'll cost a packet to fix this.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pacquet | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| packets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
packet sniffer · packetize · small packet · wage packet · wave packet · subpacket · packet loss · back-of-a-fag-packet · intrapacket · Christmas tree packet · packet station · steam-packet · magic packet · micropacket · book packet · interpacket · penny packet · multipacket · pay packet · packet boat · red packet · packet-boat · packet tracer · antipacket · Martian packet · fag packet · catch a packet · radgepacket · packet-switched · packetful
Descendants
Synonyms
Translations (140)
fa پاکت (small pack) · ko 짐 (small pack) · ko 소포 (small pack) · bg пощенски кораб (vessel to convey mail) · ar رِزْمَة (small pack) · hi लिफ़ाफ़ा (small pack) · lt paketas (small pack) · ln liboke (small pack) · ko 꾸러미 (small pack) · de Paket (small fragment of data) · cmn 包 (small pack) · fr paquet (small fragment of data) · sq paketë (small pack) · mn баглаа (small pack) · kk пакет (small pack) · is pakki (small pack) · fi paketti (vessel to convey mail) · km បេ (small pack) · pl pakiet (small fragment of data) · sl paketek (small pack) · nl pak (small pack) · eu pakete (small pack) · tg баста (small pack) · be па́чка (small pack) · tg даста (small pack) · de Packung (small pack) · bg паке́тче (small pack) · uz paket (small pack) · kk байлам (small pack) · ky пачка (small pack) · cs balíček (small pack) · mi pākete (small pack) · sk balíček (small pack) · tg пакет (small pack) · kk бума (small pack) · ro pachet de date (small fragment of data) · gd pacaid (small pack) · sh paket (small pack) · ky байлам (small pack) · cmn 小包 (small pack) · hi पुलिंदा (small pack) · th ห่อ (small pack) · fr paquet (vessel to convey mail) · tr paket (small pack) · uk па́чка (small pack) · bn মোড়ক (small pack) · kk қорап (small pack) · ca paquet (small pack) · tg бандча (small pack) · sh пакет (small pack) · sq pako (small pack) · hi पैकेट (small pack) · sh замотуљак (small pack) · ln mobombo (small pack) · eo pakŝipo (vessel to convey mail) · be паке́т (small pack) · ja 包み (small pack) · cy paced (small pack) · kk буда (small pack) · lt pakelis (small pack) · mk пакет (small pack) · it pacchetto (small pack) · uz bogʻlam (small pack) · et pakk (small pack) · mi tatai (small pack) · mn пакет (small pack) · hu csomag (small pack) · bn প্যাকেট (small pack) · et pakett (small pack) · sl zavitek (small pack) · ko 패킷 (small pack) · la fascis (small pack) · hu adatcsomag (small fragment of data) · he חֲבִילָה (small pack) · no pakke (small pack) · no pakke (small fragment of data) · kk будақ (small pack) · cmn 包裹 (small pack) · bni ebimba (small pack) · sl vrečka (small pack) · ar عُلْبَة (small pack) · pt pacote (small pack) · da pakke (small pack) · hy կապոց (small pack) · fr colis (vessel to convey mail) · ln ebimba (small pack) · hy փաթեթ (small pack) · el πακέτο (small fragment of data) · tk paket (small pack) · nrf patchet (small pack) · tg қутти (small pack) · el δέμα (small pack) · uk паке́т (small pack) · ar رِزْمَة (small fragment of data) · ru паке́т (small pack) · fi paketti (small pack) · ru паке́т (small fragment of data) · az paket (small pack) · scn pachettu (small pack) · uz pachka (small pack) · pl paczka (small pack) · sw pakiti (small pack) · es paquete (small fragment of data) · sl zavojček (small pack) · sh zamotuljak (small pack) · ar رَبْطَة (small pack) · lv paciņa (small pack) · nl pakket (small pack) · ro pachet (small fragment of data) · ka პაკეტი (small pack) · eo pako (small pack) · ru па́чка (small pack) · fa بسته (small pack) · ja パケット (small pack) · es paquete (small pack) · de Päckchen (small pack) · fi paketti (small fragment of data) · km សំណុំ (small pack) · ar صُرّة (small pack) · ro pachet (small pack) · hu tasak (small pack) · sl škatlica (small pack) · sv paket (small fragment of data) · hi पुड़िया (small pack) · it pacco (small pack) · fr paquet (small pack) · el πακέτο (small pack) · bg паке́т (small pack) · my အထုပ် (small pack) · pt packet (small fragment of data) · vi gói (small pack) · ar حُزْمَة (small pack) · sl paket (small pack) · ja 小包 (small pack) · lv paka (small pack) · ky пакет (small pack) · lo ຫໍ່ (small pack) · cy pecyn (small pack) · sv paket (small pack) · bni liboke (small pack)