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| packet | |
| 1. paquete | |
| inglés > inglés | |
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| packet | |
| 1. s. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel |  |
| Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor! | |
| a packet of letters | |
| a packet of crisps | |
| a packet of biscuits | |
| 2. s. (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; | |
| 3. s. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. | |
| 4. s. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia). | |
| 5. s. (South Africa) A plastic bag. | |
| 6. s. (colloquial) A manbulge. | |
| 7. s. (informal) A large amount of money. | |
| It'll cost a packet to fix this. | |
| 8. v. To make up into a packet or bundle. | |
| 9. v. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent. | |
| español > inglés | |
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| paquete | |
| 1. n-m. parcel | |
| 2. n-m. package | |
| 3. n-m. (colloquial Spain) chump, useless, butterfingers (an incompetent person) | |
| 4. n-m. (colloquial Spain) lunchbox (male genitals enclosed in clothing) | |
| 5. n-m. (colloquial) scrotum, package | |
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