pack vs tap

pack

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

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

  • 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 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. 

tap

verb
  • To furnish with taps. 

  • To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen. 

  • To draw off liquid from a vessel. 

  • To drain off fluid by paracentesis. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To put a new sole or heel on. 

  • To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection. 

  • To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. 

  • To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly. 

  • To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out. 

  • To exploit. 

  • To cadge, borrow or beg. 

  • To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card). 

  • To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly. 

  • To strike lightly. 

  • To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club. 

  • To cut an internal screw thread. 

  • To make a sharp noise. 

  • To intercept a communication without authority. 

  • To force (an opponent) to submit. 

noun
  • A device used to dispense liquids. 

  • A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls. 

  • A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body. 

  • An interception of communication by authority. 

  • A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. 

  • A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.) 

  • The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions. 

  • A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. 

  • A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel. 

  • A place where liquor is drawn for drinking. 

  • A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo. 

  • Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor. 

  • A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity. 

  • An Indian malarial fever. 

  • The act of touching a touch screen. 

  • A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it. 

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