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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
packed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capacity/packed audience (=the largest number of people who can fit into a hall, theatre etc)
▪ The lecture attracted a capacity audience.
a packed lunchBritish English, a bag/sack lunch American English (= food such as sandwiches that you take to school etc)
▪ Most of the children had brought packed lunches.
be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth
▪ Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines.
packed lunch
packed out
packed to the rafters (=very full)
▪ The club was packed to the rafters .
packed...overnight bag
▪ He packed an overnight bag and left.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ Diffusion Solids consist of closely packed particles.
▪ At this point it must seem paradoxical that atomic nuclei containing several closely packed protons exist at all.
▪ Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men.
▪ And, of course, closely packed plants compete not only with the weeds but with each other.
▪ For the poorer workers, the industrialists built closely packed rows of terraced houses with very little open space.
▪ The closely packed neutrons form a degenerate gas and, being fermions, they can also exert a degeneracy pressure.
■ NOUN
cell
▪ Values of packed cell count, haemoglobin, urea, glucose, creatinine, and electrolytes were obtained at admission.
▪ For those not requiring red cell transfusion there was no difference in packed cell volume between the groups at 1 month.
▪ First day packed cell volume also emerged as a predictor of transfusion requirements.
▪ Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.
house
▪ And Elvis did play ever to packed houses and many were the daughters of men who came in unto him.
▪ The lights dim and hushed expectancy shudders through the packed house.
▪ During July we were on the Women's Heart tour - 28 gigs in 30 nights, packed houses all the way.
▪ For example, in London, stage censorship ended the previous December, and the all-nude musical Hair was enjoying packed houses.
▪ The radio series the Archers has been specially adapted for the theatre and is playing to packed houses.
▪ Starring Paul Nicholas, it's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks.
▪ No more the buzz of playing before a packed house at Twickers.
lunch
▪ A wholesome breakfast is served and dinner and packed lunches are provided on request.
▪ Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform.
▪ Waterproofs, wellingtons or other strong footwear and a packed lunch.
▪ We collected our packed lunch from the manageress, and, as the sun again was shining, set out for Helvellyn.
▪ She had also prepared a good packed lunch.
▪ Vegetarian meals can be provided, and packed lunches are available on request.
▪ They had eaten a packed lunch prepared by Evelyn.
▪ I'd just as soon make do with a packed lunch.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be packed like sardines
▪ We were packed like sardines on the train.
▪ On the other side of the building turtles are packed like sardines into more tanks.
close/packed/crowded etc together
▪ The Beastline were standing close together, silhouetted against the sky.
▪ The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together.
▪ These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together.
▪ They stood close together in silence, listening.
▪ Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
▪ We draw close together to complete our plans.
full/packed/stuffed etc to the gills
▪ If Tapie was a fish he'd be stuffed to the gills this issue!
▪ It's a surprise then to find the Powerhaus pretty much packed to the gills.
packed solid
▪ The air overhead was packed solid with noise that did not move.
▪ Whalley Range was, and still is, an intensely Bohemian area packed solid with aspiring and struggling bands.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ packed snow
▪ a packed theatre
▪ Are you packed yet?
▪ Boy, the zoo is packed today.
▪ On the day of her funeral the church was packed with friends and relatives.
▪ St Peter's Square was packed with tourists.
▪ The club is so popular that it's usually packed by 9 o'clock.
▪ The plane was packed, because a previous flight had been cancelled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I'd just as soon make do with a packed lunch.
▪ There was a packed public gallery as the charges were formally read out by the court clerk.
▪ Waterproofs, wellingtons or other strong footwear and a packed lunch.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
packed

packed \packed\ adj.

  1. Same as jammed.

    Syn: full, jammed, jam-packed.

  2. Crowded; as, the theater was packed.

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Wiktionary
packed

  1. 1 Put into a package. 2 Filled with a large number or large quantity of something. v

  2. (en-past of: pack)

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WordNet
packed

  1. adj. filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater" [syn: jammed, jam-pawncked]

  2. pressed together or compressed; "packed snow"

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Usage examples of "packed".

February 20, Garner convened two days of closed-door meetings in a packed amphitheater at Fort McNair, the stately home of the National Defense University, abutting the Potomac River in Washington.

Beside myself with rage, blushing for very shame, seeing but too late the fault I had committed by accepting the society of a scoundrel, I went up to my room, and hurriedly packed up my carpet-bag.

Bending nearer, Alise noticed then that the edges of the skin around the scratch were chalk white, almost as if the wound had been packed in snow.

Until, one hopes, this conference is safely ended and all the attendees packed off to their respective solar systems.

Ayla opened a small parfleche, a carrying case made of stiff rawhide, in which she had packed food for them, some dried meat that she thought was aurochs, and a small basket of dried blueberries and little tart plums.

A narrow path opened up for him through the packed, sweating ranks and he walked to his usual place near the bar to greet the other Ministers, Seratard, Erlicher and Zergeyev who had part of his face bandaged from burns and his arm in a sling.

Then, wildly reckless, she commandeered her last cloth length of linen for bandaging and packed the leftover victuals into her satchel.

Then they had to be packed up again, all to grumbling and complaint and bawling up and down the line.

Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.

Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.

The roar of a long-ago crowd came back, a crowd packed tightly together up there, in the bleachers, with the band in the center of things blaring away with its endless renditions of the Spartan fight song.

He collected them and packed them into the single canvas bag Bluey had brought with him.

We packed our biological agents in small melon-sized metal balls, called bomblets, set to explode several miles upwind from the target city.

Within the space of a day, he had packed up and set off for Syria, leaving Rome in charge of the urban praetor, Gaius Antonius, and without so much as bothering to write a note to Antony or tell the Senate that he was leaving.

She breathed the air, even though it were close and packed with thunder, and as the hill grew steeper by the Bowder Stone, she set her knees to it and braced her back and climbed bravely to the turning of the road.