bear vs pack

bear

verb
  • Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target. 

  • To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with. 

  • To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in. 

  • To wear. 

  • To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with). 

  • To have or display (a mark or other feature). 

  • To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms. 

  • To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look). 

  • To have (a name, title, or designation). 

  • To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth). 

  • To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms. 

  • To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage). 

  • To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion). 

  • To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing. 

  • To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic. 

  • To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else. 

  • To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness. 

  • To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect). 

  • To behave or conduct (oneself). 

  • To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position). 

  • To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. 

  • To support or sustain; to hold up. 

  • To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with). 

  • To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. 

  • To carry on, or maintain; to have. 

  • To push, thrust, press. 

  • To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant. 

  • To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object). 

  • To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.). 

  • To warrant, justify the need for. 

  • To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops. 

  • To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something. 

  • To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere). 

noun
  • The meat of this animal. 

  • A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear). 

  • A portable punching machine. 

  • An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. 

  • A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck. 

  • A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae. 

  • Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore. 

  • The fifteenth Lenormand card. 

  • A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. 

  • A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual. 

adj
  • Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall. 

pack

verb
  • To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person. 

  • To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off. 

  • To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside. 

  • to load; to encumber. 

  • To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots. 

  • To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. 

  • To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission. 

  • To load with a pack 

  • To block a shot, especially in basketball. 

  • To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine. 

  • To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals). 

  • To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into. 

  • To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum. 

  • To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals. 

  • To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result. 

  • To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage 

  • To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack 

  • To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. 

  • To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. 

  • To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation. 

  • To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. 

noun
  • A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously. 

  • The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum. 

  • A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack 

  • A multitude. 

  • A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together. 

  • A full set of playing cards 

  • A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. 

  • An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. 

  • The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity. 

  • A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective. 

  • A shook of cask staves. 

  • A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. 

  • The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game. 

  • A flock of knots. 

  • A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang. 

  • A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. 

  • A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker. 

  • A group of Cub Scouts. 

  • A loose, lewd, or worthless person. 

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