PACKET
\pˈakɪt], \pˈakɪt], \p_ˈa_k_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of PACKET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A small bundle or parcel; a vessel sailing between two or more ports at regular periods, and carrying passengers. Mails, and merchandise.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small package: a despatch vessel, so called from its carrying the packets of letters: a vessel plying regularly between ports.
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To bind in a packet or parcel.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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