packedadj.1
/pakt/, U.S. /pækt/ 1.
a. That has been packed; made into a package; put into a package, packet, or container. Also: put or placed closely together; compressed.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > packing > packed
packed1472
packaged1906
1472–5 Rolls of Parl. VI. 155v It be leeffull to the Collectours of the Porte where they [sc. woollen cloths] so be pakked or brought pakked, to doo unpakke there tho Pakkes and Fardels.
1495 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 220 x sarpleth of pakkit woll.
a1500 Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 17 in Camden Misc. (1929) XV (MED) Therfor xii barells pakkyd heryng make a last.
1597 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 13 That na freman..by packit hering fra vnfremen.
1664 in A. C. O'Dell Hist. Geogr. Shetland Islands (1939) 48 12 barells packed butter.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 102 We sailed through a great quantity of packed or broken ice.
1848 E. Lear Jrnls. Landscape Painter in Albania (1851) 17 The packed Wallachians, and Bosniacs, and Jews started crampfully from the deck.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 160 The packed mass ran from the cabin partition to the sliding door.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) ii. 255 A large room with a packed dirt and coquina floor.
1991 A. Chaudhuri Strange & Sublime Addr. (1992) 157 A supermarket in which cryogenised meats and packed vegetables were arranged on racks.
b. Of a meal: pre-prepared and packaged for transporting and eating away from home. Frequently in packed lunch.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [noun]
picnic1748
tea-treatc1748
a kettle of fish1791
scram1831
picnic meal1839
box supper1851
basket-meeting1859
picnic lunch1865
picnic tea1869
school feast1879
basket picnic1882
box lunch1889
basket dinner1892
basket lunch1905
packed lunch1906
sack lunch1972
brown-bag lunch1976
the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [adjective]
picnic1802
Gypsy1816
picnicking1842
picnic-ish1854
picnicky1870
packed1906
brown bag1947
take-with1951
tailgate1970
1906 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press 24 Mar. 26/5 Stuffed eggs are also very good for a packed lunch.
1940 Daily Mirror 5 Jan. 17 If the family take packed lunches they should bring home the grease-proof [paper].
1958 B. Pym Glass of Blessings xvi. 186 Sitting on mackintoshes, eating packed lunches..tramping home again through the rain—one can see how he would yearn after Portugal.
1968 Guardian 30 Mar. 10/5 You can..be met at Benbecula by a hired car with a packed meal in it.
1993 Sun 31 May 25/5 Take a substantial packed breakfast to work—a wholemeal sarnie with cottage cheese, a yoghurt and fruit.
2003 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. f1 Packed lunches ordinarily end up in a locker, desk, or backpack for three hours..before they are eaten.
2. Full to capacity; tightly filled; stuffed, crammed, crowded.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > stuffed or crammed
well-stuffed?1483
well-crammed1567
pang1568
stuffed1598
refert1642
referted1657
charged (also crammed, primed, etc.) to the muzzle1782
packed1795
chock-a-block1822
pang-full1825
pack-full1858
ram-jam full1860
jam-packed1925
1795 A. Witts Diary 23 May in Edinb. Diary (2016) 200 I went to see Mrs. Siddons in Isabella,..highly pleased & pack'd for acting being quite inimitable.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xvi. 373 What would become of the lofty houses, thickly-packed cities, great manufacturies, the beautiful public and private edifices?
1854 Biblical Repertory Apr. 360 The dwellers in the narrow streets and packed houses of our cities.
1901 R. Kipling Kim i. 25 Here were all manner of Northern folk..swearing, shouting, arguing, and chaffering in the packed square.
1962 New Statesman 18 May 708/2 Rube..stares sultry [sic] round the packed pub.
1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 7/2 Your current production of Hamlet is playing to packed houses.
3. Technical uses.
a. Medicine and Physiology. Designating red blood cells that have been separated from plasma by centrifugation; esp. in packed cell volume n. the proportion of the volume of a centrifuged blood sample that is occupied by red blood cells.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [adjective] > centrifugation techniques
packed1920
isopycnic1955
1920 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 51 228 The quantity of packed cells and of supernatant fluid in each tube was noted.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 185 59 Several students of the blood have again become interested in the determination of the volume of packed red cells by means of various types of hematocrit.
1961 Lancet 26 Aug. 490/1 A thirteen-year-old boy required a 250 ml. packed-cell transfusion every four to five weeks.
1988 Amer. Jrnl. Perinatol. 5 40 Very-low-birthweight infants who receive a large volume of packed cells during hospitalization may accumulate iron stores sufficient for red cell production during the first 6 months of life.
2003 Vet. Surg. 32 553 Six horses had an acute and severe drop in packed cell volume (PCV), increased heart rates, and other signs of acute hemorrhage.
b. Computing. Of, relating to, or being a binary coded decimal number stored as successive half-bytes with the sign usually represented by the rightmost half-byte.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [adjective] > storage > decimal numbers
packed1964
1964 IBM Jrnl. Res. & Devel. 8 95 (caption) Packed decimal number.
1973 P. W. Murrill & C. L. Smith Introd. Computer Sci. vi. 219 To obtain the packed representation from the zoned (or unpacked) representation, we need only to (a) remove all zone fields and (b) transpose the sign and digit fields in the rightmost byte... Systems such as the IBM 360 have hardware instructions to ‘pack’ and ‘unpack’ decimal numbers.
1993 MacWeek 26 Apr. 6 Rosanne handles most standard mainframe data types, including character text, display integers, binary integers,..and packed decimal numbers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
packedadj.2
/pakt/, U.S. /pækt/ Of a jury, deliberative body, etc.: selected or made up in such a way as to influence a decision or to further a particular end (see pack v.2 4).
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [adjective] > packed
packed1579
well-packed1715
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [adjective] > selected to influence result
packed1579
1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 685 The setting vp and worshipping of Images..was dispossessed, and the true worshippe of God restored, vntill this packed Iurie of Nice, put her out of possession againe.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 12 It was by this packed over-awed Parliament, and Act, annulled, revoked, and holden as none.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. ii. 80 The pack'd Council of Trent.
1736 D. Neal Hist. Puritans III. 530 This..met with some opposition even in that pack'd assembly.
1775 A. Lee Appeal to Justice & Interests of People of Great Brit. 29 Thus a way is found out to have the lives, liberties, and property of the people at the mercy of the crown, under the form of law, by pack'd juries as well as dependent judges.
1867 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 189 1135 It was not a packed meeting.
1896 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 1 765 The public, therefore, is a packed jury already coached and trained to render a particular kind of verdict.
1930 A. Palmer Company Secretarial Pract. 142 Packed Meeting, a meeting composed mainly of persons who use their voting power to secure a decision suitable to themselves or the party to which they belong.
1982 G. L. Cohen Origin ‘Shyster’ iii. 73 A packed jury made it unnecessary to present any real evidence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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