Difference between Package and Packet

What is the difference between Package and Packet?

Package as a verb is to pack or bundle something. while Packet as a verb is to make up into a packet or bundle.

Package

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pack or bundle something. To travel on a package holiday.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. The art of packing something. Something resembling a package. A package holiday. A football formation. IE; the "dime" defensive package. The male genitalia.

Packet

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.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.A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make up into a packet or bundle.To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

We hope you now know whether to use Package or Packet in your sentence.

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