Bundle vs. Packet — What's the Difference?

A collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together

A small pouch, often consisting of two plastic or foil sheets sealed at the edges, used to distribute single portions of products in the form of liquids, powders, or small pieces

Tie or roll up (a number of things) together as though into a parcel

A small package or bundle

Push, carry, or send forcibly, hastily, or unceremoniously

(Informal) A sizable sum of money.

Sleep fully clothed with another person, as a former local custom during courtship.

A boat or ship, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail.

A group of objects held together, as by tying or wrapping.

A short block of data transmitted in a packet-switching network.

Something wrapped or tied up for carrying; a package.

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

(Biology) A cluster or strand of closely bound muscle or nerve fibers.

(nautical) 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 (Wikipedia).

(Botany) A vascular bundle.

(botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.

A large amount; a lot

(networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).

A large sum of money

(South Africa) A plastic bag.

To tie, wrap, or gather together.

(slang) package

To dispatch or dispense of quickly and with little fuss; hustle

(informal) A large amount of money.

To dress (a person) warmly

(transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.

To hurry; hasten

(transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales.

(intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.

To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

A group of products or services sold together as a unit.

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.

(informal) A large amount, especially of money.

To make up into a packet or bundle.

(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.

A collection of things wrapped or boxed together

A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).

(computer science) a message or message fragment

(law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.

A small package or bundle

(mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

A boat for carrying mail

(transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.

(transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.

(intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.

(transitive) To dress someone warmly.

(intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up

(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.

(intransitive) To hurry.

(slang) dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.

(transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.

To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.

To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.

To send off abruptly or without ceremony.

To sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; - usually done for related products which work or are used together.

To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.

To sleep on the same bed without undressing; - applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.

A collection of things wrapped or boxed together

A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit);

Make into a bundle;

Gather or cause to gather into a cluster;

Compress into a wad;

Sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed