Sekirov Dictionary

packet

/ˈpæk.ɪt/

noun 9
verb 4
forms 3
phrases 2

noun9

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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
- a packet of letters
A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
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(South-Africa) A plastic bag.
- 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits? — 2012
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(informal) A large amount of money.
- It'll cost a packet to fix this.
A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
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A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
- The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection. — 2024
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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).
- The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility. — 1960
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(slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
- A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet. — 2020

verb4

To make up into a packet or bundle.
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(Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
- Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […] — 2007
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To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- [H]er husband / VVas packetted to France, to study courtship, / Under forsooth a colour of employment, / Employment, yea of honour. — 1635
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

forms

packeted · packeting · packets

Phrases with packet

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