PACKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packing mean? 

• PACKING (noun)
  The noun PACKING has 3 senses:

1. any material used especially to protect something

2. the enclosure of something in a package or box

3. carrying something in a pack on the back

  Familiarity information: PACKING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any material used especially to protect something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

packing; packing material; wadding

Hypernyms ("packing" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packing"):

cardboard; composition board (a stiff moderately thick paper)

excelsior; wood shavings (thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing)

Derivation:

pack (compress into a wad)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The enclosure of something in a package or box

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boxing; packing

Hypernyms ("packing" is a kind of...):

enclosing; enclosure; envelopment; inclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packing"):

bundling (the act of binding something into a bundle)

Derivation:

pack (arrange in a container)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Carrying something in a pack on the back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

backpacking; packing

Context example:

the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts

Hypernyms ("packing" is a kind of...):

carry (the act of carrying something)

Derivation:

pack (carry, as on one's back)

pack (hike with a backpack)

 Context examples 

There had been warning, but White Fang was unversed in such things and did not understand the packing of a grip.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When you read this, you may already be in a distant city or packing to go in February.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As a rule, Perrault travelled ahead of the team, packing the snow with webbed shoes to make it easier for them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Without the packing, the wound could close without healing the deep areas of the wound.

(Packing Material, NCI Thesaurus)

Send them packing, inn-keeper, or it may be the worse for them and for you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"How long is he going to stand with his back against that door?" I asked myself; "I want to commence my packing."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Any spacecraft that lands in regions of granular material on Titan is going to have a tough time staying clean. Think of putting a cat in a box of packing peanuts.”

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

“So,” he added, “if we are not all shot down first they'll be glad to be packing in the schooner. It's always a ship, and they can get to buccaneering again, I suppose.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Tandem repeats form a right-handed superhelix (3 helixes per unit); tight repeat packing creates a cylindrical hydrophobic core throughout the structure.

(Armadillo Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

He glanced about the room, and the thought of packing was burdensome.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)