Word Finder - packet

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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

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Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!

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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).

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A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.

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A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).

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A plastic bag.

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2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?

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A manbulge.

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A large amount of money.

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It'll cost a packet to fix this.

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To make up into a packet or bundle.

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To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

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To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

A small packet wrapped in tissue fell to her lap.

Davout took the packet and read the inscription.

He took the packet from the table and handed it to Pierre.

Prince Andrew went to one and took out a small casket, from which he drew a packet wrapped in paper.

Traci choked on a half-laugh, half-sob and accepted the packet of tissues.

Reusch has shown that a packet of identical inactive plates arranged in spiral fashion gives an artificial active system, and the behaviour of certain pseudosymmetric crystals indicates a formation of this character.

Centres of population in Menado are Amurang (3000), the seat of a Dutch controller, and a calling place for the steamers of the Indian Packet Company; Menado (io,000), the chief town of the residency, the principal station of the Dutch missionaries, with a fair amount of trade, but an unsafe roadstead; Tondano (12,000), near the lake and river of the same name, at an altitude of nearly 2000 ft., and one of the chief centres; Gorontalo, one of the most important towns of Celebes, carrying on direct trade with Singapore and Europe.

All the other coast places have some importance as chief villages of the little states and as ports of call for the vessels of the steam packet company, but have only from 500 to 1000 inhabitants.

Balashev took out the packet containing the Emperor's letter and laid it on the table (made of a door with its hinges still hanging on it, laid across two barrels).

The direct route to Dublin from London and other parts of England is by the Holyhead route, controlled by the London & North Western railway with steamers to the port of Dublin itself, while the company also works in conjunction with the mail steamers of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company to the outlying port of Kingstown, 7 m.

If he's here, his information packet would have been picked up when he signed in.

He signed in and picked up his packet of information.

The increase in favour of packet tobaccos has brought about the invention of elaborate packing machines.

The principal passenger steamers sailing from the port are those of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the West Indies and the Pacific (via Panama) and for Brazil and the River Plate, &c., and the Union-Castle line for the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, East Africa, &c., both of which companies have their headquarters here.

The principal steamship company in the archipelago is the Royal Packet (Koninklyke Paketvaart) Company.

All round the long coast-line of Dutch Borneo there are only seven ports of call, which are habitually made use of by the ships of the Dutch Packet Company.

A packet of cards is shown - each bears a picture of a perfume bottle.

You got through another packet of Jaffa cakes today!

This is only defined for proto- col families that route; packet sockets don't.

Didnt take long to sort the Aussies into a winning combination, Russia may be the suprise packet in the group.

The gift can come in to ways, either in the packet its self or by collecting coupons.

Meanwhile cook the couscous as per the packet instructions and set aside, keeping warm.

There is a small air bubble trapped inside the ketchup packet.

I don't think the giant was scary but instead of shredded wheat he had a packet of shredded people.

When, however, the Southern envoys were taken by force from the " Trent," a British packet, Palmerston did not hesitate a moment to insist upon a full and complete reparation for so gross an infraction of international law.

I know how you like to be the first to order a triple scotch and a packet of pork scratchings.

The one at the top of the packet looked a bit skanky so I didn't plant that one.

And they should start taking the next packet straightaway if the first pack is finished during this time.

The maker of a rather nice packet of premium crisps has told a leading supermarket to take them off their shelves.

With my first pay packet I bought A new tracksuit to go into training.

The classes are self-paced and guided with an instruction packet that shares background information and helps students organize their courses, quizzes, multimedia resources, and career information.

A packet of seed, however, will yield plants with flowers of all shades, from crimson to white and yellow.

A packet of mixed seed sown in any ordinary garden soil in March will give a variety of colors.

As an example, a packet of cucumber seeds says it takes 50 days to harvest.

Replace the First String - After you get the old string out of the way, it's time to find the E string in your new packet of strings.

They are often color coded at the ball end; the back of the new packet will have a chart of the colors and the corresponding strings to help you make sure you get the right one.

It is a good idea to give the contractors a packet of information that describes your project plans.

All you need is for your friend to leave his or her lunch unattended, a packet of ketchup, a straw and a drink that isn't in a can.

Next, take off the lid of the drink, or if it is a milk carton, make sure the opening is wide enough for the ketchup packet.

Put the straw in the ketchup packet and put it back into the drink.

Make a list of the schools that meet your requirements and contact each one to ask for an informational packet.

You can also prepare soups, stews and foil packet casseroles at your campsite.

You'll place the swabs in a special sterile packet and mail them back to the service provider.

An executive assigned to your territory will contact you for an interview and provide you with a packet that explains Green Point's Broker approval process.

Inside the packet, you will also find forms that will need to be filled prior to your approval.

Monophasic pills don't change the levels of progestin and estrogen that you receive throughout the course of a month, except for during the use of the placebo pills at the end of each packet.

Each packet has twenty-eight pills inside, but all of them are active.

Family members celebrate the ancient custom of "Hong Bao", which means red packet.

Emergen-C is an effervescent super C flavored drink that contains 1,000 mg of vitamin C per packet.

Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C starts out at a price of 39.95 US dollars for a 30 packet carton.