Packet
noun
A small container or bundle holding a quantity of something.
She found a packet of crisps in the cupboard.
Often appears as...
- packet of crisps
- packet of seeds
noun
A small piece of data sent over a network like the internet.
Each packet of data is then sent separately and can take different paths to the destination.
Often appears as...
- packet of data
- packet-switching network
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small group of people or things.
A packet of journalists were waiting at the entrance.
Often appears as...
- packet of people
- packet of birds
noun
A large amount of money.
He made a packet from the sale of the house.
Often appears as...
- make a packet
- lose a packet
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small container or bundle holding a quantity of something.
She found a packet of crisps in the cupboard.
Often appears as...
- packet of crisps
- packet of seeds
noun
A small piece of data sent over a network like the internet.
Each packet of data is then sent separately and can take different paths to the destination.
Often appears as...
- packet of data
- packet-switching network
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small group of people or things.
A packet of journalists were waiting at the entrance.
Often appears as...
- packet of people
- packet of birds
noun
A large amount of money.
He made a packet from the sale of the house.
Often appears as...
- make a packet
- lose a packet
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Tangible Objects
The term frequently relates to physical items you can touch, often wrapped.
He bought a packet of gum.
Pro Tip 2/3Small Quantities
Used for small or individual quantities, not for large or bulk items.
Can you grab a packet of sugar from the store?
Pro Tip 3/3Everyday Use
Commonly used in everyday English, especially in a shopping or kitchen context.
We need a new packet of tea bags.
Pro Tip 1/3Tangible Objects
The term frequently relates to physical items you can touch, often wrapped.
He bought a packet of gum.
Pro Tip 2/3Small Quantities
Used for small or individual quantities, not for large or bulk items.
Can you grab a packet of sugar from the store?
Pro Tip 3/3Everyday Use
Commonly used in everyday English, especially in a shopping or kitchen context.
We need a new packet of tea bags.
Pro Tip 1/3Tangible Objects
The term frequently relates to physical items you can touch, often wrapped.
He bought a packet of gum.
Pro Tip 2/3Small Quantities
Used for small or individual quantities, not for large or bulk items.
Can you grab a packet of sugar from the store?
Pro Tip 3/3Everyday Use
Commonly used in everyday English, especially in a shopping or kitchen context.
We need a new packet of tea bags.
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Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
I found quite a few packets of biscuits amongst all the fruit and vegetables and everything else that was in there. And I thought, well this could serve as a symbol for today. So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine. That's what's in fields around the world every single year. The first biscuit we're going to lose
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How we can eat our...
this jigsaw it's about taking those artistic people in your community and doing some fabulous designs in those raised beds to explain to people what's growing there because there's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with a bit of an instruction packet on the top so we have some people who design these things it looks like
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Kevin Kelly: The next...
And we saw that, where you have all the computers of the world. And if you remember, it was a kind of green screen with cursors, and there was really not much to do, and if you wanted to connect it, you connected it from one computer to another computer. And what you had to do was -- if you wanted to participate in this, you had to share packets of information.
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Judy MacDonald Johnston:...
Have advocates keep a set in their car. Tape a set to your refrigerator. When you show up in the E.R. with this packet, your admission is streamlined in a material way. You're going to need caregivers. You'll need to assess your personality and financial situation to determine whether an elder care community
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It's time to question...
sheep body which actually raises an interesting biological problem we have two kinds of dna in our bodies we have our nucleic dna that everybody thinks of as our dna but we also have dna in our mitochondria which are the energy packets of the cell that dna is passed down through our
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When nature, sound and...
so why birds why birds well the way that I've set the piano up I think it sounds really bird-like the way that these devices kind of flutter and twitch and pluck and stab at the piano strings is perhaps the sound that you would hear if a bird were to land on a piano and packet
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
so yes they are yeah these are packets in Tanzania and a pack that's in northern conservancies of the Mara and sometimes very very rarely do they make an appearance in the Triangle and after two years of being here basically all year in eight months if you want to call it that
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Internet 101 PIPE National...
Once the packets arrive, their data is reassembled into the text, audio, or video that was originally sent. Since the days of the earliest computer networks, the internet has undergone a tremendous transformation, while also transforming the world that created it.
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These Birds Have ALL The...
and so romantic i have something to ask you my dear wendy would you do me the honor of taking my paw all right you two pair of losers don't mind me i'll just squeeze it in there we lovely you've not seen a packet of nice
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The surprising thing I...
that's quite a task. That's food, fuel, clothes, even toilet roll and toothpaste. That's what we do, and when we leave we manage it down to the last drop of diesel and the last packet of food. No experience in my life
Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
I found quite a few packets of biscuits amongst all the fruit and vegetables and everything else that was in there. And I thought, well this could serve as a symbol for today. So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine. That's what's in fields around the world every single year. The first biscuit we're going to lose
Video examples
How we can eat our...
this jigsaw it's about taking those artistic people in your community and doing some fabulous designs in those raised beds to explain to people what's growing there because there's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with a bit of an instruction packet on the top so we have some people who design these things it looks like
Video examples
Kevin Kelly: The next...
And we saw that, where you have all the computers of the world. And if you remember, it was a kind of green screen with cursors, and there was really not much to do, and if you wanted to connect it, you connected it from one computer to another computer. And what you had to do was -- if you wanted to participate in this, you had to share packets of information.
Video examples
Judy MacDonald Johnston:...
Have advocates keep a set in their car. Tape a set to your refrigerator. When you show up in the E.R. with this packet, your admission is streamlined in a material way. You're going to need caregivers. You'll need to assess your personality and financial situation to determine whether an elder care community
Video examples
It's time to question...
sheep body which actually raises an interesting biological problem we have two kinds of dna in our bodies we have our nucleic dna that everybody thinks of as our dna but we also have dna in our mitochondria which are the energy packets of the cell that dna is passed down through our
Video examples
When nature, sound and...
so why birds why birds well the way that I've set the piano up I think it sounds really bird-like the way that these devices kind of flutter and twitch and pluck and stab at the piano strings is perhaps the sound that you would hear if a bird were to land on a piano and packet
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
so yes they are yeah these are packets in Tanzania and a pack that's in northern conservancies of the Mara and sometimes very very rarely do they make an appearance in the Triangle and after two years of being here basically all year in eight months if you want to call it that
Video examples
Internet 101 PIPE National...
Once the packets arrive, their data is reassembled into the text, audio, or video that was originally sent. Since the days of the earliest computer networks, the internet has undergone a tremendous transformation, while also transforming the world that created it.
Video examples
These Birds Have ALL The...
and so romantic i have something to ask you my dear wendy would you do me the honor of taking my paw all right you two pair of losers don't mind me i'll just squeeze it in there we lovely you've not seen a packet of nice
Video examples
The surprising thing I...
that's quite a task. That's food, fuel, clothes, even toilet roll and toothpaste. That's what we do, and when we leave we manage it down to the last drop of diesel and the last packet of food. No experience in my life
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Quote examples
Sara Cox
English Entertainer
In the 80s, mum used to make a beautiful beef in red wine sauce, which I thought very exotic. And an incredible chilli con carne, with baked beans so it wasn't too spicy for us. Later, when I asked for the recipes, she said: 'I don't know - they were Colman's or Schwartz's packet mixes.' It completely ruined it for me.
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Jamie Vardy
English Athlete
When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.
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Trinny Woodall
English Designer
Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
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Nicola Roberts
English Musician
I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in my body that's from a packet. I used to eat microwave ready meals, because we were so busy, but now I like to eat clean.
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Rosalia
Spanish Singer
I'm trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won't lie - there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
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Satish Kumar
Indian Activist
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
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Molly Yeh
American Chef
Don't plant too deeply. Pay attention to the directions on the seed packets as far as how deep and how close together to plant the seeds.
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Davina McCall
I was a waitress for a couple of years when I was 18 and with my first pay packet, I paid for an hour's cleaning once a week.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
Quote examples
Sara Cox
English Entertainer
In the 80s, mum used to make a beautiful beef in red wine sauce, which I thought very exotic. And an incredible chilli con carne, with baked beans so it wasn't too spicy for us. Later, when I asked for the recipes, she said: 'I don't know - they were Colman's or Schwartz's packet mixes.' It completely ruined it for me.
Quote examples
Jamie Vardy
English Athlete
When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.
Quote examples
Trinny Woodall
English Designer
Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
Quote examples
Nicola Roberts
English Musician
I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in my body that's from a packet. I used to eat microwave ready meals, because we were so busy, but now I like to eat clean.
Quote examples
Rosalia
Spanish Singer
I'm trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won't lie - there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.
Quote examples
Jo Brand
British Comedian
There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
Quote examples
Satish Kumar
Indian Activist
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
Quote examples
Molly Yeh
American Chef
Don't plant too deeply. Pay attention to the directions on the seed packets as far as how deep and how close together to plant the seeds.
Quote examples
Davina McCall
I was a waitress for a couple of years when I was 18 and with my first pay packet, I paid for an hour's cleaning once a week.
Quote examples
John Updike
American Novelist
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
Example 1 of 10
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