Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 2
Package (n.) [C] 包裹；包 [（+of）]；包裝箱（盒，袋）；（香菸等的）一包 Act or process of packing.
Package (n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.
Package (n.) A charge made for packing goods.
Package (n.) A duty formerly
charged in the
Package (n.) A collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: {package}, {bundle}, {packet}, {parcel}].
Package (n.) A wrapped container [syn: {package}, {parcel}].
Package (n.) (Computer science) Written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/ write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand" [syn: {software}, {software program}, {computer software}, {software system}, {software package}, {package}] [ant: {computer hardware}, {hardware}].
Package (v.) 把……打包；包裝 [（+up）] Put into a box; "box the gift, please" [syn: {box}, {package}] [ant: {unbox}].
Packer (n.) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
Packer (n.) A ring of packing or a special device to render gas-tight and water-tight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. [U. S.]
Packer (n.) A workman employed to pack things into containers [syn: packer, bagger, boxer].
Packer (n.) A wholesaler in the meat-packing business [syn: meat packer, packer].
Packer (n.) A hiker who wears a backpack [syn: backpacker, packer].
Packet (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. -- Shak.
Packet (n.) 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, Packet ship, or Packet vessel. See Packet, n., 2.
Packet day, The day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.
Packet note or Packet post. See under Paper.
Packeted (imp. & p. p.) of Packet.
Packeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Packet.
Packet (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.
Packet (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
Her husband Was packeted to France. -- Ford.
Packet (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
Packet (n.) A collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel].
Packet (n.) (Computer science) A message or message fragment.
Packet (n.) A small package or bundle.
Packet (n.) A boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat].
Packet
Data packet, () The unit of data sent across a network. "Packet" is a generic term used to describe a unit of data at any layer of the OSI protocol stack, but it is most correctly used to describe application layer data units ("{application protocol data unit", APDU).
See also datagram, frame. (1994-11-30)
Packfong (n.) (Metal.) A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.
Pack horse () See under 2d Pack.
Packhouse (n.) Warehouse for storing goods.
Packing (n.) The act or process of one who packs.
Packing (n.) Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.
Packing (n.) Specifically (Mach.): A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as:
Packing (n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.
Packing (n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.
Packing (n.) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.
Packing (n.) (Masonry) Same as Filling. [Rare in the U. S.]
Packing (n.) A trick; collusion. [Obs.] -- Bale.
Cherd packing (Bridge Building), The arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. -- Waddell.
Packing box, A stuffing box. See under Stuffing.
Packing press, A powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc.
Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston.
Packing sheet. A large cloth for packing goods.
Packing sheet. A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.
Packing (n.) Any material used especially to protect something [syn: packing material, packing, wadding].
Packing (n.) The enclosure of something in a package or box [syn: packing, boxing].
Packing (n.) Carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts" [syn: packing, backpacking].
Packmen (n. pl. ) of Packman.
Packman (n.) One who bears a pack; a peddler.
Packman (n.) Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman].
Pack saddle () Alt. of Pack thread.
Pack thread () See under 2d Pack. packthread
Packwax (n.) (Anat.) Same as Paxwax.
Compare: Paxwax
Paxwax (n.) (Anat.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebr[ae], and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
Packway (n.) A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals. Paco
Paco (n.) Alt. of Pacos.
Pacos (n.) (Zool.) Same as Alpaca.
Pacos (n.) (Min.) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. -- Ure.
Pact (v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant. -- Bacon.
The engagement and pact of society which goes by the name of the constitution. -- Burke.
Pact (n.) A written agreement between two states or sovereigns [syn: treaty, pact, accord].
PACT, () Partnership in Advanced Computing Technologies (org. UK).
PACT, () Personal Air Communications Technology, "pACT".
PACT, () Production Analyses Control Technique.
PACT, () civil law. An agreement made by two or more persons on the same subject in order to form some engagement, or to dissolve or modify, one already made, conventio est duorum in idem placitum consensus de re solvenda, id. est facienda vel praestanda. Dig. 2, 14; Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Ayl. Pand. 558; Merl, Rep. Pacte, h.t.
Paction (n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Pactional (a.) Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction. -- Bp. Sanderson.
Pactitious (a.) Setted by a pact, or agreement. [R.] -- Johnson.
Pactolian (a.) Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.
Pacu (n.) (Zool.) A South American freah-water fish ({Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.
Pad (n.) A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Pad (n.) An easy-paced horse; a padnag. -- Addison
An abbot on an ambling pad. -- Tennyson.
Pad (n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. -- Gay. -- Byron.
Pad (n.) The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]
Pad (v. t.) To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.]
Padding the streets for half a crown. -- Somerville.
Pad (v. i.) To travel heavily or slowly. -- Bunyan.
Pad (v. i.) To rob on foot. [Obs.] -- Cotton Mather.
Pad (v. i.) To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.]
Pad (n.) A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
Pad (n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
Pad (n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
Pad (n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
Pad (n.) (Zool.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Pad (n.) (Med.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
Pad (n.) (Naut.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. -- W. C. Russel.
Pad (n.) A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] -- Simmonds.
Pad (n.) A dwelling place, usually an apartment; one's living quarters; as, come over to my pad to watch the game. [Slang]
Pad (n.) A sum of money paid as a bribe to police officers, shared among them; also, the list of such officers receiving such a bribe.
Pad cloth, A saddlecloth; a housing.
Pad saddle. See def. 3, above.
Pad tree (Harness Making), A piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. -- Knight.
On the pad, Receiving bribes; -- of police officers.
Padded (imp. & p. p.) of Pad.
Padding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pad.
Pad (v. t.) To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
Pad (v. t.) (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. -- Ure.
Pad (n.) A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge [syn: pad, pad of paper, tablet].
Pad (n.) The large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily).
Pad (n.) A block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp [syn: pad, inkpad, inking pad, stamp pad].
Pad (n.) A flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort.
Pad (n.) A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched [syn: launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area, pad].
Pad (n.) Temporary living quarters [syn: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad].
Pad (n.) The fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger.
Pad (v.) Add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise].
Pad (v.) Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp].
Pad (v.) Line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" [syn: pad, fill out].
Pad (v.) Add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" [syn: pad, bolster].
PAD, () Packet Assembling Disassembling (CCITT, X.3, X.28, X.29, PSDN)
Packet Assembler/ Disassembler
PAD, ()
(PAD) Hardware or software device for splitting a data stream into discrete packets for transmission over some medium and then reforming the stream(s) at the receiver.
The term is most often used for interfaces to X.25 lines.
(1995-01-31)
Padar (n.) Groats; coarse flour or meal.
[Obs.] -- Sir. H. Wotton.
Padder (n.) One who, or that which, pads.
Padder (n.) A highwayman; a footpad. [Obs.]
Padder (n.) A highwayman who robs on foot [syn: footpad, padder].
Padding (n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
Padding (n.) The material with which anything is padded.
Padding (n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. -- London Sat. Rev.
Padding (n.) (Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
Padding (n.) Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort [syn: padding, cushioning].
Paddle (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Paddle (v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
As the men were paddling for their lives. -- L'Estrange.
While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. -- Gay.
Paddled (imp. & p. p.) of Paddle.
Paddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paddle.
Paddle (v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [Obsolescent]
To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. -- Shak.
Paddle (v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
Paddle (v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
Paddle (v. t.) To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; -- usually as a disciplinary punishment of children.
Paddle (v. t.) To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle.
Paddle (n.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
Paddle (n.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle, such as that used in table tennis.
Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. -- Deut. xxiii. 13.
Paddle (n.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
Paddle (n.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
Paddle (n.) (Zool.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
Paddle (n.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
Paddle (n.) See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.]
Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), One of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel.
Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3.
Paddle shaft, The revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
Paddle staff. A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.]
Paddle staff. A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [Prov. Eng.]
Paddle steamer, A steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller.
Paddle wheel, The propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length. Paddlebox
Paddle (n.) Small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games.
Paddle (n.) A blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel.
Paddle (n.) An instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board.
Paddle (n.) A short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat [syn: paddle, boat paddle].
Paddle (v.) Propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe".
Paddle (v.) Play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: dabble, paddle, splash around].
Paddle (v.) Swim like a dog in shallow water.
Paddle (v.): Walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle].
Paddle (v.) Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank, paddle, larrup].
Paddle (v.) Stir with a paddle.
Paddle, () A language for transformations leading from specification to program. Used in the POPART programming environment generator. (1994-11-30)
Paddlecock (n.) (Zool.) The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]
Paddlefish (n.) (Zool.) A large ganoid fish ({Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.
Paddlefish (n.) Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout [syn: paddlefish, duckbill, Polyodon spathula].
Padder (n.) One who, or that which, pads.
Padder (n.) A highwayman; a footpad. [Obs.]
Padder (n.) A highwayman who robs on foot [syn: footpad, padder].
Paddlewood (n.) (Bot.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.
Paddock (n.) (Zool.) A toad or frog. --Wyclif. "Loathed paddocks." -- Spenser
Paddock pipe (Bot.), A hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially Equisetum limosum and the fruiting stems of Equisetum arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum.
Paddock stone. See Toadstone.
Paddock stool (Bot.),A toadstool.
Paddock (n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting. [Obs.]
Paddock (n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. -- Evelyn. -- Cowper.
Paddock (n.) An enclosure used for saddling and mounting horses prior to a race.
Paddock (n.) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
Paddy (a.) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." -- Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." -- Motley.
Paddies (n. pl. ) of Paddy.
Paddy (n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman. -- usually considered offensive. [Obsolescent]
Paddy (n.) (Bot.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.
Paddy bird. (Zool.) See Java sparrow, under Java.
Paddy (n.) (Ethnic slur) Offensive term for a person of Irish descent [syn: Paddy, Mick, Mickey].
Paddy (n.) An irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown [syn: paddy, paddy field, rice paddy].
Paddy (n.) Rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field.
Padelion (n.) (Bot.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.
Padella (n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.
Pademelon (n.) (Zool.) 澳洲小袋鼠 Any of several small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea, especially those belonging to the genus Thylogale; a paddymelon. See Wallaby
Pademelon (n.) Small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea [syn: pademelon, paddymelon].
Compare: Wallaby
Wallaby (n.; pl. Wallabies.) (Zool.) 【動】沙袋鼠；【口】澳洲土人（尤指女人） Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo ({Halmaturus Bennettii) and the pademelon ({Halmaturus thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains. [Written also wallabee, and whallabee.]
Wallaby (n.) Any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored [syn: wallaby, brush kangaroo].
Padesoy (n.) See Paduasoy.
Compare: Paduasoy
Paduasoy (n.) 稜紋絲織品；稜紋絲織品做的衣服 A rich and heavy silk stuff. [Written also padesoy.]
Padge (n.) (Zool.) The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl. [Prov. Eng.]
Padishah (n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.
Padlock (n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
Padlock (n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
Padlocked (imp. & p. p.) of Padlock.