packet
English
/ˈpak.ɪt/, /ˈpæk.ɪt/
noun
Definitions
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (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 ( (sea transport)|Wikipedia).
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks ( Wikipedia).
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- (colloquial) A manbulge.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pacquet derived from Middle French pacquet.
Origin
Middle French
pacquet
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antipacket English
- depacketize English
- interpacket English
- intrapacket English
- micropacket English
- multipacket English
- packetization English
- packetize English
- packetizer English
- packetlike English
- radge English
- radgepacket English
- repacketize English
- subpacket English
- aaltopaketti Finnish
- apupaketti Finnish
- eväspaketti Finnish
- joululahjapaketti Finnish
- joulupaketti Finnish
- kahvipaketti Finnish
- kasvupaketti Finnish
- keksipaketti Finnish
- kortsupaketti Finnish
- kriisipaketti Finnish
- lahjapaketti Finnish
- muropaketti Finnish
- ohjelmistokehityspaketti Finnish
- ohjepaketti Finnish
- opetuspaketti Finnish
- paketillinen Finnish
- paketinhallintajärjestelmä Finnish
- paketinhallintatyökalu Finnish
- paketoida Finnish
- paketti Finnish
- pakettiauto Finnish
- pakettiautomaatti Finnish
- pakettidata Finnish
- pakettikortti Finnish
- pakettikytkentä Finnish
- pakettikärry Finnish
- pakettiloma Finnish
- pakettiosoitekortti Finnish
- pakettipelto Finnish
- pakettivarasto Finnish
- postipaketti Finnish
- tietopaketti Finnish
- tukipaketti Finnish
- veropaketti Finnish
- pak Dutch, Flemish
- pakket Dutch, Flemish
- paket Swedish
- pacquet Middle English
- pak Middle English
- पैकेट Hindi
- pacquet Middle French
- pakiti Swahili
- 패킷 Korean