English Dictionary

packet

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpækɪt/

名詞

南アフリカ英語 俗語 くだけた表現

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

日本語の意味

小さな包み、小包やパッケージとして用いられる物品の集まりを指す。 / 小さな束や小包、少量の物品を包んだもの。

She handed me a packet of seeds to plant in the garden.

彼女は庭に植えるための種が入った小袋を私に渡した。

意味（1）

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!

意味（2）

(nautical) 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. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).

With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

意味（3）

(botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].

意味（4）

(networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).

意味（5）

(South Africa) A plastic bag.

2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?

意味（6）

(slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”)

意味（7）

(informal) A large amount of money.

It'll cost a packet to fix this.

packets （ plural ）