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packing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun packing has 3 senses

packing(n = noun.substance) packing material, wadding - any material used especially to protect something; Array

is a kind of material, stuff

has particulars: cardboard, composition board, excelsior, wood shavings

Derived form verb pack₃

packing(n = noun.act) boxing - the enclosure of something in a package or box; Array

is a kind of enclosing, enclosure, envelopment, inclosure

has particulars: bundling

Derived form verb pack₁

packing(n = noun.act) backpacking - carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"

is a kind of carry

Derived forms verb pack₄, verb pack₈

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CIDE DICTIONARY

packing, n.

The act or process of one who packs. [1913 Webster]
Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. [1913 Webster]
Same as Filling. [1913 Webster]
A trick; collusion. Bale. [1913 Webster]

Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

packing, n.
1 the act or process of packing.
2 material used as padding to pack esp. fragile articles.
3 material used to seal a join or assist in lubricating an axle.

Idiom

packing-case a case (usu. wooden) or framework for packing goods in.

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THESAURUS

packing

air express, airfreight, airlift, allocation, asportation, assignment, bearing, bottling, boxing, bush, bushing, canning, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, collocation, conveyance, crating, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, doubling, doublure, drayage, emplacement, encasement, expressage, facing, ferriage, filler, filling, freight, freightage, gasket, gland, haulage, hauling, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, lading, lighterage, liner, lining, loading, localization, locating, location, lugging, package, packaging, padding, pinpointing, placement, placing, portage, porterage, positioning, posting, putting, railway express, reposition, shipment, shipping, situation, spotting, stationing, stopping, storage, stowage, stuffing, tampon, telpherage, tinning, toting, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, wadding, waft, waftage, wagonage, wainscot

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Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.

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