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Uncommonpacket
The correct spelling is packet.
How to pronounce packet
/ˈpak.ɪt/
nounIPA: /ˈpak.ɪt/
Say it like: Pak-et
The correct spelling is packet. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel For example: "Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!"
Usage Examples
“Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!”
“2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?”
“It'll cost a packet to fix this.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- 2.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).
- 3.A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- 4.A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- 5.A plastic bag.
verb
- 1.To make up into a packet or bundle.
- 2.To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- 3.To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- 4.To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
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