PACKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packed mean? 

• PACKED (adjective)
  The adjective PACKED has 2 senses:

1. extremely crowed or filled to capacity

2. pressed together or compressed

  Familiarity information: PACKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely crowed or filled to capacity

Synonyms:

jam-packed; jammed; packed

Context example:

a packed theater

Similar:

crowded (overfilled or compacted or concentrated)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pressed together or compressed

Context example:

packed snow

Similar:

compact (closely and firmly united or packed together)

 Context examples 

Your ruler Mars is in your packed professional and prestigious tenth house, filled with happy planets, and is in direct communication with Uranus, currently in your earned income sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A second theory is that the magnetic field lines within the gas flowing towards Sgr A* could be tightly packed and become tangled.

(NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole, NASA)

A reduction in the number of red blood cells, the amount of hemoglobin, and/or the volume of packed red blood cells.

(Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

I ordered her to say nothing, but to get a few things packed and my ulster ready.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A benign endocervical polypoid epithelial hyperplasia characterized by the presence of tightly packed glandular structures.

(Cervical Microglandular Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

A tightly packed area of chromatin that may function to protect chromosome integrity and regulate gene expression.

(Heterochromatin, NCI Thesaurus)

And yet it’s not so sure; for the buildings are so packed together about the court, that it’s hard to say where one ends and another begins.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I packed my things, banged the hall door behind me, and set off for Esher, with my bag in my hand.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The village street was packed with people, for they had been sleeping twelve and fifteen in a room, whilst hundreds of gentlemen had spent the night in their carriages.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)