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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
packet
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cigarette packetBritish English, a cigarette pack American English
▪ Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket.
a packet of cigarettesBritish English, a pack of cigarettes American English
▪ How much does a packet of cigarettes cost?
cost a bomb/a packetBritish English (= have a very high price)
▪ He has a new sports car that must have cost a bomb.
packet boat
pay packet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
crisp
▪ Ant: Anything - potato sacks, vacuum cleaner bags, crisp packets ... Louise: That's stupid.
▪ As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet.
▪ Ask your family and friends to give you their empty crisp packets for a week.
▪ He did not get a standing ovation; instead the applause resembled the sound of empty crisp packets blowing across an playground.
empty
▪ With luck, she might be buried for ever under the wet newspapers, stinking food remnants and empty cornflake packets.
▪ As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet.
▪ And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window on to Britain's already polluted streets.
▪ Ask your family and friends to give you their empty crisp packets for a week.
▪ Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.
▪ You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet.
▪ He tossed the empty packet on to the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table.
▪ He did not get a standing ovation; instead the applause resembled the sound of empty crisp packets blowing across an playground.
little
▪ The first paper bag, by my left knee, had held the four little packets now strewn beside it.
▪ He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber.
small
▪ The packet contained two smaller packets - one blue, one white, which were mixed together in a tumbler of water.
▪ Ironically, the small packets, often emblazoned with a skull-and-crossbones, are harmless.
▪ The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.
▪ I carried the fortune of coins in a small packet of red paper in my jeans.
▪ The ubiquitous Freezits, small plastic packets of frozen synthetic juice, are strangely absent.
▪ They sell small packets wrapped in white paper, tied with cotton.
▪ So she pulled out a rolled up tenner and a small packet.
■ NOUN
cereal
▪ He looked at the cereal packets.
▪ Make your own kidney dialysis machine using an old cereal packet, some Sellotape and a used toilet roll.
▪ Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets.
cigarette
▪ Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.
▪ Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.
▪ He crunched pea-nut shells under his feet and waded ankle-deep in ice-cream cartons, paper bags, cigarette packets, half-eaten apples.
▪ Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.
▪ He taps the cigarette packet round and round on the table surface.
▪ You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet.
information
▪ Meanwhile, the voter information packets continued to sit in a warehouse as election day approached.
pay
▪ When my grandparents came over, the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather.
▪ Pay cuts imposed on workers have benefited the profits of corporations and the pay packets of better-off.
▪ The 1986 Finance Act introduced tax relief on regular giving to charities deducted from the giver's pay packet.
▪ She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.
▪ Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.
▪ He'd been conned, as if he was an eighteen-year-old kid up from the suburbs with his first pay packet.
▪ Except for the workmen who were already in the pubs splashing their pay packets about.
▪ Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.
wage
▪ Mr Yarrow paused a moment before placing a wage packet into it.
▪ They are also the largest single source of income, and so spending from wage packets is a key source of markets.
▪ When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere.
▪ The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet.
▪ In their last wage packets, Harvard did not pay the £2,000 or so each that they were expecting.
▪ In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once.
■ VERB
buy
▪ I buy those packets of small reels of thread which are often only 50p or £1 a pack.
▪ Jean-Paul paused at a kiosk to buy a packet of Gauloises.
cost
▪ It will cost me a packet to travel down to watch the rescheduled match!
▪ A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes.
▪ I don't care if it costs a packet!
▪ These things must cost the firm a packet.
▪ Cars, food, and clothes are cheaper, but services like plumbers cost a packet.
▪ Packet You'd think that adding £6,000 on to their existing mortgage of £36,000 would cost them a packet.
find
▪ On it you will find some packets of chemical powders, a small bottle and a book.
▪ Will his wife find a packet of three in his five-iron pouch?
give
▪ Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.
▪ During one period, Philip was given a packet of work sheets to do.
▪ Who gave you the packet, Holly?
▪ What was the agency in London, what was the name of the man who gave you that packet?
▪ Full instructions are given on the packet.
open
▪ Perhaps I'd better put the kettle on and crack open a packet of my finest custard creams.
▪ Don't open the packet with your teeth and be careful not to snag the rubber with rings or finger-nails.
▪ He opened one of the packets of biscuits and unscrewed the lid of the flask.
▪ Remember: Open the packet carefully, not with your teeth.
pick
▪ Idly she picked up her packets of seeds.
▪ He picked up a fresh packet of Players cigarettes and offered one.
put
▪ I put the packet of little clothes beside her like an offering and stood back.
▪ I mean, what better place to put ketchup packets under car tires?
receive
▪ In return they receive fat pay packets and impunity.
▪ Each participant received a packet including information guides, maps, a Super Bowl cap and a Share the Warmth lapel pin.
sell
▪ They are sold in packets or dressed in oil in jars, and are available from delicatessens and health food shops.
▪ In general, garden catalogs sell seed packets, nursery stock, bulbs or equipment.
▪ They sell small packets wrapped in white paper, tied with cotton.
take
▪ Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.
▪ Interesting examples that support your point always help to add meat to the bone of your document. Take an information packet.
▪ He pushed her towards the door, then reached into his coat pocket and took out a packet of cigarettes.
▪ The patient had been told to take two packets daily.
▪ She smiled slightly and took the packet.
▪ Keith drops her hand and takes a packet of tissues out of his pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a packet of carrot seeds
▪ We received our membership packets in the mail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each publisher had sent it back, in a packet addressed to Currer Bell.
▪ I mean, I don't think a packet of crisps and a choc ice is a very spiritual vision.
▪ Make up Pasta Choice as per packet instructions.
▪ The packet is posted on the electronic bulletin board, and Felton himself reads them all, responding to many himself.
▪ The Budget doubles the price of beer and puts 3d on a 9d packet of cigarettes.
▪ The eggs of this species are shed in a packet - that is several stuck together - and sink.
▪ The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.
▪ The women work exclusively in the packing department, putting coffee into different size packets.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
packet

packet \pack"et\ (p[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]

  1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
    --Shak.

  2. 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, Packet ship, or Packet vessel. See Packet, n., 2.

    Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.

    Packet note or Packet post. See under Paper.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
packet

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 mails. Packet-switching attested from 1971.

Wiktionary
packet

n. 1 A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits. 2 (lb en nautical) 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 (http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Packet%20(sea%20transport)). 3 (lb en botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. 4 (lb en networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20packet). 5 (lb en South Africa) A plastic bag. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To make up into a packet or bundle. 2 (context transitive English) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. 3 (context intransitive English) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. 4 (context transitive internet English) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

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WordNet
packet

  1. n. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, parcel]

  2. (computer science) a message or message fragment

  3. a small package or bundle

  4. a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, mail boat, packet boat]

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Wikipedia
Packet

Packet may refer to:

  • A small container or pouch
    • Packet (container), a small single use container
    • Cigarette packet
    • Sugar packet
    • Plastic bag
  • Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
  • Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
  • Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship
  • Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service
  • C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
  • Packet Newspapers, British newspaper group
Packet (container)

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 package, and then squeezing out the contents.

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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.