Pack vs. Unit — What's the Difference?

A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole.

A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.

A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.

The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.

A mechanical part or module.

A small package containing a standard number of identical or similar items

An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.

A complete set of related items

A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.

(Informal) A large amount; a heap

(Medicine) The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.

A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.

A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.

A gang of people

A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme

An organized troop having common interests

The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.

A mass of large pieces of floating ice driven together.

The lowest positive whole number; one.

Material, such as towels, sheets, or blankets that are used to swathe a patient or body part.

An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.

A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound.

(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

An ice pack used to reduce pain and inflammation.

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

A cold pack.

The number one.

A hot pack.

Ellipsis of international unit

A cosmetic paste that is applied to the skin, allowed to dry, and then rinsed off.

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

Variant of pac.

A member of a military organization.

To fold, roll, or combine into a bundle; wrap up.

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing

Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.

To fill up with items

A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.

To process and put into containers in order to preserve, transport, or sell

Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.

To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together

An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

To fill up tight; cram.

A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

To wrap (a patient) in a pack.

With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.

To insert a pack into (a body cavity or wound).

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

To wrap tightly for protection or to prevent leakage

(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.

To press together; compact firmly

(category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.

(Informal) To carry, deliver, or have available for action

(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.

To send unceremoniously

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

To constitute (a voting panel) by appointment, selection, or arrangement in such a way that it is favorable to one's purposes or point of view; rig

One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

To place one's belongings in boxes or luggage for transporting or storing.

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

To be susceptible of compact storage

A work unit.

To form lumps or masses; become compacted.

A physically large person.

A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.

A penis, especially a large one.

A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

For each unit.

A multitude.

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

A single thing or person.

A full set of playing cards

The least whole number; one.

The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.

A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.

A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

A flock of knots.

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;

A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.

An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;

A group of Cub Scouts.

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group;

A shook of cask staves.

A single undivided whole;

A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;

A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;

(medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

(slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. en

A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

(rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.

(roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.

(physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.

(transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack

(transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.

(transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.

(transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.

(intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

(intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.

To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.

To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.

(social) To cheat.

To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage

(transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.

(transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

(intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.

(transitive) To load with a pack

To load; to encumber.

To move, send or carry.

(transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.

To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).

(intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.

To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.

To block a shot, especially in basketball.

To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.

To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.

A pact.

A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

A group or quantity of connected or similar things; as, a pack of lies

A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.

In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated.

The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.

To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as, to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.

To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

To shuffle, sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly; to stack{3} (the deck).

To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; to stack{3}; as, to pack a jury or a caucus.

To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.

To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; to send packing; - sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.

To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).

To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something;

To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.

To depart in haste; - generally with off or away.

To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

A large indefinite number;

A complete collection of similar things

A small parcel (as of cigarettes or film)

An association of criminals;

An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

A group of hunting animals

A cream that cleanses and tones the skin

A sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect

A bundle (especially one carried on the back)

Arrange in a container;

Fill to capacity;

Compress into a wad;

Carry, as on one's back;

Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome;

Have with oneself; have on one's person;

Press tightly together or cram;

Hike with a backpack;

Press down tightly;

Seal with packing;

Have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily;

Load with a pack

Treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood;