Pack
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; A group of Cub Scouts. A shook of cask staves. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. A loose, lewd, or worthless person. A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals). To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. To carry (one or more firearms) about one's person. To block a shot, esp. in basketball.
Example sentence: Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
Ring
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To surround or enclose.To make an incision around; to girdle.To attach a ring to, especially for identification.To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.To make a (church) bell produce sound.Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.To telephone someone.to resound, reverberate, echo
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ringA place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring.A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter.An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as w:Stonehenge.The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.A pleasant or correct sound.A telephone call.An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is an abelian group under addition and a monoid under multiplication.An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under multiplication, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
Example sentence: As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It's the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.