Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small pouch, often consisting of two plastic or foil sheets sealed at the edges, used to distribute single portions of products in the form of liquids, powders, or small pieces.
- noun A small package or bundle.
- noun Informal A sizable sum of money.
- noun A boat, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail.
- noun A short block of data transmitted in a packet-switching network.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small pack or package; a parcel; a mail of letters.
- noun A despatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed to convey letters from country to country or from port to port; a vessel employed in carrying mails, goods, and passengers at stated intervals; hence, a vessel starting on regular days, or at an appointed time. Also called packet-boat, packet-ship, packet-vessel.
- noun The panel of a packhorse.
- noun A pack (250 leaves) of leaf-metal.
- To bind up in a package or parcel.
- To despatch or send in a packet-vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make up into a packet or bundle.
- transitive verb To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- intransitive verb To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- noun A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel.
- noun 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.
- noun See
Packet , n., 2. - noun the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.
- noun See under
Paper .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
pack orpackage ; a littlebundle orparcel ; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits. - noun 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 (Wikipedia).
- noun botany A
specimen envelope containing small, driedplants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. - noun networking A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of
network , notablyEthernet networks (Wikipedia). - verb transitive To make up into a packet or bundle.
- verb transitive To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- verb intransitive To
ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small package or bundle
- noun (computer science) a message or message fragment
- noun a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- noun a boat for carrying mail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Except now I can't remember if it's a 500g packet of butter or a 250g packet*.
Three embarrassing confessions StyleyGeek 2008
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Except now I can't remember if it's a 500g packet of butter or a 250g packet*.
Archive 2008-11-01 StyleyGeek 2008
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The underlying misunderstanding behind the “debate” about Net Neutrality and DPI boils down to “a packet is a packet is a packet”.
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But hey, if you want shitty-quality video, the stagnation of VOIP, and extremely-laggy surgery-at-a-distance just because “a packet is a packet is a packet”, then by all means get the government to ban stuff like DPI.
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“I hit on the word packet,” he said, “in the sense of small package.”
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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“I hit on the word packet,” he said, “in the sense of small package.”
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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I will certainly make them into a parcel, with some songs I have long meant to send you. and you will receive it by next Thursday night by Avey — But I write this quickly that you may have it tomorrow evening and know that the packet is coming. —
Letter 183 2009
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Others like Public Knowledge take the position that every packet is equal.
Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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In this packet is community information, police links so on so forth, but they also included the Colorado Springs CO, sex offender registry.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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STB has the press packet from the event posted -- it's pretty heady stuff, especially since the mayor has found a way to solve the problem that "In King County, African-Americans are 60 percetn (sic) more likely to be obese".
“Walk Bike Ride” Plan Would Narrow Nickerson for Bikes « PubliCola 2010
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