Pack

Definition

pack /pæk/ n ၁။ [C] စကၠဴ (သို႔) ကတ္ထူဘူး။ a pack of cigarettes/ beefburgers/ Christmas cards ❍ a six-pack of beer (ie six cans of beer wrapped and sold together) ❍ They are £5.80 for a pack of four. ၂။ လိုအပ္ရာရာမ်ားကို စုစည္း ထုပ္ပိုးေပးထားေသာ အထုပ္။ a membership/ an information/ a home buyers' pack ❍ I gave her one of those Chinese cookery starter packs with all the different sauces and spices. ၃။ [C] (က) ဝန္ထုပ္။ donkeys carrying packs of wool. (ခ) ေက်ာပိုးအိတ္။ long distance walkers carrying huge packs. See also BACKPACK, HAVERSACK, RUCKSACK ၄။ [CGp] ~ (of sb/ sth) ( often derog ) (က) အုပ္။ သိုက္။ a pack of reporters ❍ They lead the pack of European car manufacturers. (ခ) တစ္ပံုတစ္ေခါင္း။ တစ္ပံုတစ္ပင္။ He told me a pack of lies. ၅။ [CGp] အုပ္။ packs of dogs roaming the streets ❍ Wolves hunt in packs. ❍ a pack of hounds. ၆။ [CGp] (ကင္းေထာက္ အငယ္တန္း)အုပ္။ ၇။ [C] ( US deck ) ဖဲတစ္ထုပ္။ ဖဲတစ္ဖံု။ v ၁။ (က) ~ (sth) (in/ into sth) ထုပ္ပိုးသည္။ Haven't you packed (your suitcase) yet? All these books need to be packed (into boxes). (ခ) ~ into sth ဆံ့သည္။ ဝင္သည္။ ကာသည္။ ကန္သည္။ My clothes won't all pack into this case. ၂။ ~ sth (in sth) (က) (အခုအခံျဖင့္) ထုပ္ပိုးသည္။ pack china in newspaper ❍ glass packed in straw. (ခ) (ေရခဲ) ႐ိုက္သည္။ (ဆားရည္၊ ဆီ စသည္တြင္) စိမ္သည္။ fresh shellfish packed in ice ❍ sardines packed in oil/ brine. ၃။ (ထုတ္လုပ္ၿပီးအစားအစာ၊ ပစၥည္း စသည္ကို) ထုပ္ပိုး သည္။ meat packed in Cellophane ❍ She packs eggs. ၄။ ~ sth (with sth/sb) ျပည့္က်ပ္ေနသည္။ ၿပံဳတိုးေနသည္။ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနသည္။ Chanting fans packed the stadium/ The stadium was packed with chanting fans. ❍ The show played to packed houses (ie large audiences). ❍ This book is packed with useful information. ❍ The restaurant was packed (ie crowded). ❍ Everyone was packed together on the station platform. See also ACTION-PACKED ၅။ ဖို႔သိပ္သည္။ ထုတက္ေစသည္။ The wind had packed the snow against the door. ၆။ ( US infml ) ေဆာင္သည္။ He packs a gun. ၇။ ~ sth with sb ( derog ) (အဖြဲ႕၊ ေကာ္မတီ၊ ခံု စသည္တြင္) ကိုယ့္လူခ်ည္းသာ ထည့္သည္။ He packed the board with like-minded colleagues. ❏ pack-animal n ဝန္တင္တိရစၧာန္။ ❏ pack sth away [ PHRV ] သိမ္းဆည္းသည္။ As soon as he finished university, he packed away all his notes. ❏ pack one's bags [ IDM ] ( infml ) အိမ္ေပၚက ဆင္းသြား သည္။ The next time he hit her she packed her bags and left. ❏ packed lunch n ေန႔လယ္စာထုပ္၊ ထမင္းခ်ဳိင့္။ He takes a packed lunch to work every day. ❏ packer n (အစားအေသာက္) ထုပ္ပိုးသည့္သူ၊ ကုမၸဏီ၊ စက္။ ❏ pack ice n [U] ပင္လယ္ျပင္တြင္ေမ်ာရင္း ထုထည္ ႀကီးမား ေသာ ေရခဲစိုင္အျဖစ္ စုခဲသြားေသာ ေရခဲတံုးႀကီးမ်ား။ ပင္လယ္ ေရခဲစိုင္။ ❏ pack (sb, sth) in [ PHRV ] ႐ံုပြင့္မတတ္ ဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္ သည္။ ႐ံုလွ်ံထြက္သည္။ The show has been packing them in for months (ie attracting large audiences). ❏ pack sth in [ PHRV ] ( infml ) စြန္႔လိုက္သည္။ ျဖတ္လိုက္ သည္။ She's packed in her job. ❍ Smoking's bad for you — you ought to pack it in. ❏ pack sth in; pack sth in/ into sth [ PHRV ] အခ်ိန္ (အနည္းငယ္)အတြင္း ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား (လုပ္)ႏိုင္လိုက္သည္။ She managed to pack a lot of sightseeing into three days. သံုးရက္အတြင္း ႏွံ႔ေအာင္ ေလွ်ာက္လည္ႏိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ❏ pack (sb, sth) into sth [ PHRV ] ညပ္သိပ္ေနသည္။ All six of us were packed into the tiny car. ❏ pack it in [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) ေတာ္တန္တိတ္စမ္း။ (ဗန္း)ေခါက္ထားလိုက္စမ္း။ I'm sick of your complaining — just pack it in, will you? ❏ pack sb off (to…) [ PHRV ] ႏွင္လႊတ္လိုက္သည္။ ေမာင္းလႊတ္လိုက္သည္။ She packed the children off to bed. ❍ In the summer we were packed off to stay with our grandparents. ❏ pack sth out [ PHRV ] ႐ံုျပည့္သည္။ ႐ံုလွ်ံမတတ္ ျဖစ္သည္။ Opera houses are packed out wherever she sings. ❏ pack a (hard, etc) punch [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ လက္သီးျပင္းသည္။ ၂။ အင္မတန္ျပင္းသည္။ Her cocktails pack quite a punch! ❏ pack up [ PHRV ] (infml esp Brit) ပ်က္သည္။ (ဗန္း) ဘုရားေခၚသြားၿပီ။ My car has packed up. ❏ pack (sth) up [ PHRV ] ၁။ သိမ္းဆည္း ထုပ္ပိုးသည္။ He packed up his things and left. ၂။ (infml) ပြဲသိမ္းသည္။ နား(သြား)သည္။ Business is terrible — I might as well pack up and go home. လုပ္ငန္းအေျခအေနကမေကာင္းဘူး။ ဖ်ာလိပ္ၿပီး အိမ္ျပန္ရေတာ့မယ္။ ❍ When did you pack up that job you had in Japan?

Examples

1. It didn’t take her long to pack the few clothes she would need.
2. Haven’t you packed yet?
3. [pack a bag/suitcase etc] : He was still packing his suitcase when the taxi came.
4. [pack someone something] : I’ve packed you a few sandwiches in case you get hungry.
5. The plates were still packed in white tissue paper.
6. [packed in oil/salt/ice] : Sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil
7. This is where the fruit is packed.
8. Eager spectators packed the courtroom.
9. Pat the soil down
10. but do not pack it too tightly.
11. Opposition members felt the conference had been packed with government supporters.