Dictionary Entry
packet
packet is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
- 2noun
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.
- 3transitive verb
To make up into a packet or bundle.
- 4transitive verb
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- 5intransitive verb
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- 6noun
a boat for carrying mail
- 7noun
a small package or bundle
- 8noun
(computer science) a message or message fragment
- 9noun
a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
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