Pact
A pact, from Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), is a formal agreement. In international relations, pacts are usually between two or more sovereign states. In domestic politics, pacts are usually between two or more political parties or other organizations.
Notable international pacts include:
Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan (1936)
Auto Pact between Canada and the United States (1965)
Kellogg–Briand Pact, a multilateral treaty against war (1928)
London Pact between Italy and the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, and Russia) (1915)
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union (1939)
Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (1941)
North Atlantic pact, organizing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
Pact of Steel between Italy and Germany (1939)
Stability and Growth Pact between European Union member states about fiscal policy (1997)
Tripartite Pact between Italy, Germany, and Japan (1940)
U.S.–North Korea Agreed Framework concerning the latter country’s development of nuclear power (1994)
Warsaw Pact of Eastern European communist countries, led by the Soviet Union (1955-1991)
Pact (noun)
An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
Pact (noun)
An agreement between two or more nations
Pack (noun)
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.
“The horses carried the packs across the plain.”
Pack (noun)
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
Pack (noun)
A multitude.
“a pack of lies”
“a pack of complaints”
Pack (noun)
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
Pack (noun)
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
“We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.”
Pack (noun)
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
Pack (noun)
A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
Pack (noun)
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
“a pack of thieves or knaves”
Pack (noun)
A group of Cub Scouts.
Pack (noun)
A shook of cask staves.
Pack (noun)
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
Pack (noun)
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
“The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.”
Pack (noun)
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
Pack (noun)
: A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
Pack (noun)
A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
Pack (noun)
The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
“The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.”
Pack (verb)
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
Pack (verb)
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.
“to pack goods in a box;”
“to pack fish”
Pack (verb)
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.
“to pack a trunk;”
“the play, or the audience, packs the theater”
Pack (verb)
To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
“The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.”
Pack (verb)
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.
“to pack a joint;”
“to pack the piston of a steam engine;”
“pack someone’s arm with ice.”
Pack (verb)
To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
Pack (verb)
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.
“the goods pack conveniently;”
“wet snow packs well”
Pack (verb)
To gather in flocks or schools.
“the grouse or the perch begin to pack”
Pack (verb)
To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
Pack (verb)
To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
Pack (verb)
To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
Pack (verb)
To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
“to pack a jury”
Pack (verb)
To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
Pack (verb)
To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
“to pack a horse”
Pack (verb)
To move, send or carry.
Pack (verb)
To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
Pack (verb)
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 pack a boy off to school”
Pack (verb)
To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
Pack (verb)
To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
Pack (verb)
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
Pack (verb)
To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
Pack (verb)
To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.