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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Pack VS package

What is the difference between a pack and a package?
  

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A pack has an irregular shape, but it still holds things. It can be a pile of things tied together. A package is much tidier - usually it is box-shaped for stacking and mailing.

  • A pack has an irregular shape, but it still holds things.
  • It can be a pile of things tied together.
  • A package is much tidier - usually it is box-shaped for stacking and mailing.
  • ) used to carry packs, a backpack (a pack designed to carry on your back), daypack, battery packs, cigarette packs, those awful plastic shapes called blister packs that are the devil to open, cold packs (for putting ice where it hurts), and of course, the sixpack and the pack rat.
  • Pack is also a group - a wolfpack, pack of dogs.
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A pack has an irregular shape, but it still holds things. It can be a pile of things tied together.
A package is much tidier - usually it is box-shaped for stacking and mailing.

Pack is used in combination with descriptive words -

There is the pack animal (pack mule, camel, etc.) used to carry packs, a backpack (a pack designed to carry on your back), daypack, battery pa

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