packing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pack=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

packing, n. 

•  The act or process of one who packs.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.  [1913 Webster]
•  Same as Filling.  [1913 Webster]
•  A trick; collusion.  Bale.  [1913 Webster]

Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

packing, n.
1 the act or process of packing.
2 material used as padding to pack esp. fragile articles.
3 material used to seal a join or assist in lubricating an axle.

Idiom

packing-case a case (usu. wooden) or framework for packing goods in.

THESAURUS

packing

air express, airfreight, airlift, allocation, asportation, assignment, bearing, bottling, boxing, bush, bushing, canning, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, collocation, conveyance, crating, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, doubling, doublure, drayage, emplacement, encasement, expressage, facing, ferriage, filler, filling, freight, freightage, gasket, gland, haulage, hauling, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, lading, lighterage, liner, lining, loading, localization, locating, location, lugging, package, packaging, padding, pinpointing, placement, placing, portage, porterage, positioning, posting, putting, railway express, reposition, shipment, shipping, situation, spotting, stationing, stopping, storage, stowage, stuffing, tampon, telpherage, tinning, toting, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, wadding, waft, waftage, wagonage, wainscot

ROGET THESAURUS

packing

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.