Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- 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. nautical 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. botany A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- n. networking A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- v. transitive To make up into a packet or bundle.
- v. transitive To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- v. intransitive To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
- v. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Etymologies
- Either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pack + -et. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pekette, probably diminutive of pak, pack; see pack1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Except now I can't remember if it's a 500g packet of butter or a 250g packet*.”
“But hey, if you want shitty-quality video, the stagnation of VOIP, and extremely-laggy surgery-at-a-distance just because “a packet is a packet is a packet”, then by all means get the government to ban stuff like DPI.”
“The underlying misunderstanding behind the “debate” about Net Neutrality and DPI boils down to “a packet is a packet is a packet”.”
““I hit on the word packet,” he said, “in the sense of small package.””
“STB has the press packet from the event posted -- it's pretty heady stuff, especially since the mayor has found a way to solve the problem that "In King County, African-Americans are 60 percetn (sic) more likely to be obese".”
“Walk Bike Ride” Plan Would Narrow Nickerson for Bikes « PubliCola
“I will certainly make them into a parcel, with some songs I have long meant to send you. and you will receive it by next Thursday night by Avey — But I write this quickly that you may have it tomorrow evening and know that the packet is coming. —”
“Others like Public Knowledge take the position that every packet is equal.”
“In this packet is community information, police links so on so forth, but they also included the Colorado Springs CO, sex offender registry.”
“One application packet is sufficient to apply for all available fellowship positions.”
“The download packet is a mix of. pdf,. doc,. html, and. rtf files, nothing really set up for Kindle that I know of.”
2010 Hugo Award Nominees and download packet « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘packet’.
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 440 more... -
Bracket and such
bracket, bucket, cricket, docket, jacket, locket, packet, picket, racket, rocket, socket, sprocket and 17 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Whaleworthy & Piratical Words
A list of favorite nautical words to be sprinkled liberally throughout speech for piratical or Melvillian effect.
batten down, back and fill, beamy, baulking, beckets, bilge, bold shore, boomjumper, breaker, larboard, abaft, ash breeze and 156 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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General Collectibles
Amassing a good trove for starters.
ancient, parallax, temporal, placket, salient, replete, synecdoche, abstruse, abject, parse, discursive, egress and 39 more...
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Fun words from engineering textbooks
packet, ethernet, bandwidth, bus, topology, coxial, gateway, entropy, sphalerite, polycrystalline, viscoelasticity, creep and 12 more...
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Technofancy
chipset, kernel, motherboard, network, bios, microprocessor, ram, rom, register, pipelining, smartphone, programmable and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for packet.

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