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packet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cigarette packet British English , a cigarette pack American English ▪ Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket. a packet of cigarettes British English , a pack of cigarettes American English ▪ How ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A '''packet ''' is a small bag or pouch, made from paper , foil , or plastic film , often used to contain single-use quantities of foods or consumer goods such as ketchup or shampoo . Packets are commonly opened by making a small rip or tear in part of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
packet \pack"et\ (p[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack .] A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle English pak "bundle" (see pack (n.)) + diminutive suffix -et ; perhaps modeled on Anglo-French pacquet (Middle French pacquet ), which ultimately is a diminutive of Middle Dutch pak . A packet boat (1640s) originally was one that carried ...
Usage examples of packet.
She handed over an airmail letter and a well- wrapped packet about the size of a box of chocolates.
Master Radly had included an oilskin bow case and a covered quiver in the price of the bow, to which Alec had added a score of arrows, linen twine and wax for bowstrings, and packets of red and white fletching.
I learned that on the 5th of June a violent explosion was heard in the Chamber of Representatives at Paris, which was at first supposed to be a clap of thunder, but was soon ascertained to have been occasioned by a young Samson having fallen with a packet of detonating powder in his pocket.
It would have taken time, effort, and ingenuity to put sodium azide in sweetener packets.
I had not as much money about me, but I sent her the same day a packet of twelve hundred francs with a note in which I begged her to have recourse to me in all her necessities.
Pauline allowed me to escort her as far as Calais, and we started on the 10th of August, only stopping at Dover to embark the carriage on the packet, and four hours afterwards we disembarked at Calais, and Pauline, considering her widowhood had begun, begged me to sleep in another room.
I fished out my own packet and glanced at my bib number8then opened the accompanying map.
You see, after Summer House mapped your cell structure, the data was scattered in packets throughout the biogenesis function to make it harder to detect.
Driver left a packet of matches on the bar that advertises a bookie shop in Dun Laoghaire.
The midwife said that I came to her one night, accompanied by a young lady about five months with child, and that, holding a pistol in one hand and a packet of fifty Louis in the other, I made her promise to procure abortion.
When we had done, the woman came up, gave her a packet, and went away again, wishing us good night.
I got up, and I had scarcely put on my dressing-gown when the cousin came in with a packet under her arm.
The girl came back with the packet, and putting myself in a proper position I told her to try one on.
As soon as they were gone, Campioni, who had come in before and had stood in the background, came up to me and gave me back the packet of papers, and with tears of joy congratulated me on the happy issue of the duel.
In the continental patisserie she bought olive ciabatta and date bread and chocolate croissants and several packets of white chocolate finger biscuits.