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What is the noun for packing?

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pack
  1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale
  2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
  3. a multitude.
  4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  5. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game
  6. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
  7. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
  8. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
  9. A group of Cub Scouts.
  10. A shook of cask staves.
  11. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
  12. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
  13. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
  14. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
  15. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
  16. (rugby) The team on the field.
  17. Synonyms:
  18. Examples:
    1. “Your child should bend at the knees and grab the pack with both hands when lifting it to the shoulders.”
      “He checked his watch and walked to his dresser again for one more look before grabbing his wallet and a pack of mints.”
      “I perceive these are no knights, but only a pack of scoundrels.”
package
  1. Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
  2. Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
  3. (computing) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
  4. (uncountable, archaic) The act of packing something.
  5. Something resembling a package.
  6. A package holiday.
  7. A football formation.
  8. (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
  9. (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “Does the final pack or package include just the tray, or the tray and header bag, or the shelf pack too?”
      “Police chiefs have announced a whole package of radical proposals aimed at streamlining policing.”
      “Google Maps comes as part of the package if you opt for the Google Mobile App suite.”
packaging
  1. the act of packing something
  2. the materials used to pack something
  3. the industry that produces such material
  4. (by extension) the manner in which a person or product is promoted
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Seventy-nine percent of French consumers were found to remove the packaging immediately after the purchase of strawberries.”
      “Whether it's a calculated decision or an impulse buy, the physical look of the product's packaging is frequently the sole reason for a product's sale.”
packer
  1. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
  2. (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
  3. (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The packer efficiently organized all the items for shipping.”
      “Blocks are sealed, conveyed through metal detectors and routed to an automatic case packer before they are weighed and labeled.”
      “They concluded that increased beef packer margins in the last few years had stemmed from oligopsony power among packers.”
packager
  1. A person who packages.
  2. A tool or machine used to package objects.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The containers must also carry the name, company name and address of the producer and packager of the product and the net weight at origin.”
      “It is rebranding them and using a local packager, to distinguish the Indian products from those sold elsewhere.”
      “But, as a packager of other people's dramatic and sporting talents, its business will be vulnerable.”
packing
  1. The action of the verb.
    1. The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
    2. (mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
    3. The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
    4. (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
  2. As a concrete noun.
    1. Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
    2. Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
    3. A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
    4. Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Fill all voids over two inches with some type of packing.”
packhouse
  1. A building where fruit and vegetables are packed prior to distribution to shops.
packyear
  1. A measure of the cigarettes a person has smoked, equal to a pack (of twenty cigarettes) each day for a year.
packcloth
  1. A strong, coarse cloth used for packaging
  2. Examples:
    1. “Denier Coated Packcloth is durable and highly water repellent, yet flexible and easy to work with.”
packability
  1. The quality or state of being packable
  2. Examples:
    1. “The final choice, chosen for its lightness, performance, and packability, was a Patagonia Torrentshell jacket and overtrousers.”
      “There are a variety of advantages to a spread of goose silhouettes, not the least of which are their packability and ease of carry.”
packmate
  1. A member of the same pack (social group).
packagings
packhouses
  1. plural of packhouse
packyears
  1. plural of packyear
packagers
packmates
  1. plural of packmate
packages
packings
packers
  1. plural of packer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At the meatworks all the packers were women and almost all the jobs as boners and slicers, the better paid ones, were occupied by men.”
      “We also installed new case packers, a new check weigher system, robotic palletizers and automatic box formers.”
      “Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy.”
packs
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