Packet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small package or bundle.
  • n. Informal A sizable sum of money.
  • n. A boat, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail.
  • n. A short block of data transmitted in a packet switching network.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
  • 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, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
  • n. A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
  • n. A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
  • v. To make up into a packet or bundle.
  • v. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  • v. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel.
  • 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.
  • v. To make up into a packet or bundle.
  • v. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  • verb-intransitive. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small pack or package; a parcel; a mail of letters.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The panel of a packhorse.
  • n. A pack (250 leaves) of leaf-metal.
  • To bind up in a package or parcel.
  • To despatch or send in a packet-vessel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small package or bundle
  • n. (computer science) a message or message fragment
  • n. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
  • n. a boat for carrying mail
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    packeted    packeting    packets   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    message    boat   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    packeted    packeting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bundle    book    set   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bracket    jacket    racket    racquet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    package    container    box    envelope    bundle    message    pack    file    sack    parcel