noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
packing case
postage and packing BrE, postage and handling American English (= the charge for packing and sending something you have bought )
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It’s yours for £13.99, including postage and packing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
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It is supposed to be concealed in a secret bunker and contained in about 40 packing cases .
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There's a shanty town built of flattened oil barrels and packing cases .
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A couple of blokes from the engineering works were carrying a packing case into the building.
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His team started with a plank resting on two wooden packing cases , for a desk.
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Start collecting boxes and packing cases Make sure home contents insurance covers you for the move.
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We were jammed unceremoniously among sinister-looking unmarked packing cases , obviously best left alone.
density
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In general, consecutive spill should be considered for low packing densities and/or very large bucket sizes.
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At this packing density the average search time for a given record is 0.732R, where R is the device rotation time.
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Records can be added of course, but this will increase the packing density .
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The results tabulated here show that, for low packing densities , the most effective technique is generally chained overflow.
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In addition, this measure gives a potentially better packing density than conventional indexing techniques.
■ VERB
send
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Altogether Jones has been sent packing on six occasions, the latest for swearing soon after rejoining Wimbledon from Chelsea.
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Come on - let us beard this lot and send them packing .
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How Preston had been sent packing .
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The previous day the Saints had sent Copdock packing by eight wickets after Steve Leggett's spell of 12-5-17-5.
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What would happen to him if he were sent packing ?
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Officers sent Marika Mitsotakis packing after she offered to pay the £3.40 entry fee.
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They could be of further use if Treasury chiefs are sent packing .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
send sb packing
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Dozens of workers were sent packing because of harsh new environmental rules.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Altogether Jones has been sent packing on six occasions, the latest for swearing soon after rejoining Wimbledon from Chelsea.
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Eventually the limit is reached where no further packing would be possible and where the configurational entropy therefore vanishes.
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For instance: Ban all polystyrene, such as packing chips, meat trays and some egg boxes.
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He said, well, they come in big cases and big wooden boxes and packing and so forth.
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So you'd better start packing - don't forget a cagoule.
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The number of ways of packing is reduced since the empty volume available becomes more and more correlated with the molecules.
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They thus show the number of synonyms created, assuming a perfect randomizing algorithm, for various packing factors.
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We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably.