PACKET


Meaning of PACKET in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a cigarette packet British English , a cigarette pack American English

Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket.

a packet of cigarettes British English , a pack of cigarettes American English

How much does a packet of cigarettes cost?

cost a bomb/a packet British English (= have a very high price )

He has a new sports car that must have cost a bomb.

packet boat

pay packet

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

crisp

Ant: Anything - potato sacks, vacuum cleaner bags, crisp packets ... Louise: That's stupid.

As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet .

Ask your family and friends to give you their empty crisp packets for a week.

He did not get a standing ovation; instead the applause resembled the sound of empty crisp packets blowing across an playground.

empty

With luck, she might be buried for ever under the wet newspapers, stinking food remnants and empty cornflake packets .

As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet .

And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window on to Britain's already polluted streets.

Ask your family and friends to give you their empty crisp packets for a week.

Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets , and cigarette butts.

You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet .

He tossed the empty packet on to the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table.

He did not get a standing ovation; instead the applause resembled the sound of empty crisp packets blowing across an playground.

little

The first paper bag, by my left knee, had held the four little packets now strewn beside it.

He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber.

small

The packet contained two smaller packets - one blue, one white, which were mixed together in a tumbler of water.

Ironically, the small packets , often emblazoned with a skull-and-crossbones, are harmless.

The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.

I carried the fortune of coins in a small packet of red paper in my jeans.

The ubiquitous Freezits, small plastic packets of frozen synthetic juice, are strangely absent.

They sell small packets wrapped in white paper, tied with cotton.

So she pulled out a rolled up tenner and a small packet .

■ NOUN

cereal

He looked at the cereal packets .

Make your own kidney dialysis machine using an old cereal packet , some Sellotape and a used toilet roll.

Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets.

cigarette

Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.

Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.

He crunched pea-nut shells under his feet and waded ankle-deep in ice-cream cartons, paper bags, cigarette packets , half-eaten apples.

Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets , and cigarette butts.

He taps the cigarette packet round and round on the table surface.

You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet .

information

Meanwhile, the voter information packets continued to sit in a warehouse as election day approached.

pay

When my grandparents came over, the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather.

Pay cuts imposed on workers have benefited the profits of corporations and the pay packets of better-off.

The 1986 Finance Act introduced tax relief on regular giving to charities deducted from the giver's pay packet .

She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.

Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.

He'd been conned, as if he was an eighteen-year-old kid up from the suburbs with his first pay packet .

Except for the workmen who were already in the pubs splashing their pay packets about.

Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.

wage

Mr Yarrow paused a moment before placing a wage packet into it.

They are also the largest single source of income, and so spending from wage packets is a key source of markets.

When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere.

The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet .

In their last wage packets , Harvard did not pay the £2,000 or so each that they were expecting.

In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once.

■ VERB

buy

I buy those packets of small reels of thread which are often only 50p or £1 a pack.

Jean-Paul paused at a kiosk to buy a packet of Gauloises.

cost

It will cost me a packet to travel down to watch the rescheduled match!

A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes.

I don't care if it costs a packet !

These things must cost the firm a packet .

Cars, food, and clothes are cheaper, but services like plumbers cost a packet .

Packet You'd think that adding £6,000 on to their existing mortgage of £36,000 would cost them a packet .

find

On it you will find some packets of chemical powders, a small bottle and a book.

Will his wife find a packet of three in his five-iron pouch?

give

Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.

During one period, Philip was given a packet of work sheets to do.

Who gave you the packet , Holly?

What was the agency in London, what was the name of the man who gave you that packet ?

Full instructions are given on the packet .

open

Perhaps I'd better put the kettle on and crack open a packet of my finest custard creams.

Don't open the packet with your teeth and be careful not to snag the rubber with rings or finger-nails.

He opened one of the packets of biscuits and unscrewed the lid of the flask.

Remember: Open the packet carefully, not with your teeth.

pick

Idly she picked up her packets of seeds.

He picked up a fresh packet of Players cigarettes and offered one.

put

I put the packet of little clothes beside her like an offering and stood back.

I mean, what better place to put ketchup packets under car tires?

receive

In return they receive fat pay packets and impunity.

Each participant received a packet including information guides, maps, a Super Bowl cap and a Share the Warmth lapel pin.

sell

They are sold in packets or dressed in oil in jars, and are available from delicatessens and health food shops.

In general, garden catalogs sell seed packets , nursery stock, bulbs or equipment.

They sell small packets wrapped in white paper, tied with cotton.

take

Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.

Interesting examples that support your point always help to add meat to the bone of your document. Take an information packet .

He pushed her towards the door, then reached into his coat pocket and took out a packet of cigarettes.

The patient had been told to take two packets daily.

She smiled slightly and took the packet .

Keith drops her hand and takes a packet of tissues out of his pocket.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a packet of carrot seeds

We received our membership packets in the mail.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Each publisher had sent it back, in a packet addressed to Currer Bell.

I mean, I don't think a packet of crisps and a choc ice is a very spiritual vision.

Make up Pasta Choice as per packet instructions.

The packet is posted on the electronic bulletin board, and Felton himself reads them all, responding to many himself.

The Budget doubles the price of beer and puts 3d on a 9d packet of cigarettes.

The eggs of this species are shed in a packet - that is several stuck together - and sink.

The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.

The women work exclusively in the packing department, putting coffee into different size packets.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.