packet – English noun declension

English noun forms of packet

Noun: packet
Singularpacket
Pluralpackets

Sample Sentences

  • Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
  • a packet of letters
  • a packet of biscuits
  • (archaic) a travel bag containing clothing, nightwear and other accessories.
  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. [1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility. [1960 May 26, K. A. Murray, “Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:]
  • Fishguard Harbour, constructed some 60 years ago by the G.W.R., became the packet port for G.W.R. services to Waterford and Rosslare - the latter port itself was a new venture partly under G.W.R. auspices - and to Cork. [1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:]
  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:]
  • The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection. [2024 September 28 (last accessed), “Protocol”, in wiki.vg, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2024, Definitions:]
  • 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
  • A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet. [2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 157:]
  • It'll cost a packet to fix this.

Etymology

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et. See: Middle English Nouns 'pacquet'.

Verbs referencing "packet"

Finnish Nouns paketti.