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PACK TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pack together mean? 

PACK TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb PACK TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. make more compact by or as if by pressingplay

  Familiarity information: PACK TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PACK TOGETHER (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more compact by or as if by pressing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

compact; compress; pack together

Context example:

compress the data

Hypernyms (to "pack together" is one way to...):

force; squeeze; wedge (squeeze like a wedge into a tight space)

"Pack together" entails doing...:

press (exert pressure or force to or upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pack together"):

pack; tamp; tamp down (press down tightly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP


 Context examples 


Crystallography study reveals that two ~95 amino acid BRCT repeats within the domain adopt similar structures that pack together in a head-to-tail arrangement.

(BRCT Domain, NCI Thesaurus)



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