Keep
Keep verb - To place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability.
Usage example: I keep extra toothbrushes for unexpected overnight guests
Pack
Pack verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
How words are described
| old | old keep | old pack |
| full | full keep | full pack |
| normal | normal keep | normal pack |
| fast | fast keep | fast pack |
| Other adjectives: complete, regular, original, single, small, actual, massive, great, huge, main, major, extra, unofficial, creepy. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Your pack mules are included in this, so counter-intuitively your party can keep track of less animals as there are more of you.
Source: Arbitrary Headcount Limit - Escape 2000: the heroes are a pack of gang members and hoodlums, whose efforts to keep the Bronx safe for drug dealing and petty crime only come out looking heroic because the bad guys are killing people with flamethrowers more or less indiscriminately.
Source: Black And Gray Morality / Film -
Normally, people — or at least Brits — would keep a bit more distance from each other, but that's just not practical in the pack cylinder shaped cars of the tube lines, so instead they retreat into the mind and ignore it.
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