"hardpack" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hardpacks [plural]
Etymology: From hard + pack. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hard|pack}} hard + pack Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hardpack (countable and uncountable, plural hardpacks)
  1. (uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hardpack-en-noun-xZAJ-zTo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 84 16
  2. (countable) A hard package, especially of cigarettes. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-hardpack-en-noun-hhJTowZP

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “package”",
      "word": "softpack"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hard",
        "3": "pack"
      },
      "expansion": "hard + pack",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hard + pack.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hardpacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hardpack (countable and uncountable, plural hardpacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, The Industrial Enterprise, volume 25, number 4, page 1:",
          "text": "The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Roads and Streets, volume 101, page 131:",
          "text": "Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 February 2, Ski, page 36:",
          "text": "Unlike powder, hardpack permits great speed (no spiny arms on those balls of ice to drag on your ski bottom). Where powder is sluggish, crudely transmitting your body movements to the snow, hardpack is the snow of precision.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-hardpack-en-noun-xZAJ-zTo",
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        [
          "dirt",
          "dirt"
        ],
        [
          "gravel",
          "gravel"
        ],
        [
          "snow",
          "snow"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Russell Banks, The New World: Tales, page 25:",
          "text": "That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Shane A. Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight:",
          "text": "Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, George P. Pelecanos, The Turnaround:",
          "text": "Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hard package, especially of cigarettes."
      ],
      "id": "en-hardpack-en-noun-hhJTowZP",
      "links": [
        [
          "cigarettes",
          "cigarette#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A hard package, especially of cigarettes."
      ],
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        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hardpack"
}
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      "sense": "antonym(s) of “package”",
      "word": "softpack"
    }
  ],
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    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
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        "2": "hard",
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      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hard + pack.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hardpacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hardpack (countable and uncountable, plural hardpacks)",
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    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, The Industrial Enterprise, volume 25, number 4, page 1:",
          "text": "The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Roads and Streets, volume 101, page 131:",
          "text": "Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 February 2, Ski, page 36:",
          "text": "Unlike powder, hardpack permits great speed (no spiny arms on those balls of ice to drag on your ski bottom). Where powder is sluggish, crudely transmitting your body movements to the snow, hardpack is the snow of precision.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dirt",
          "dirt"
        ],
        [
          "gravel",
          "gravel"
        ],
        [
          "snow",
          "snow"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Russell Banks, The New World: Tales, page 25:",
          "text": "That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Shane A. Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight:",
          "text": "Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, George P. Pelecanos, The Turnaround:",
          "text": "Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hard package, especially of cigarettes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cigarettes",
          "cigarette#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A hard package, especially of cigarettes."
      ],
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        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hardpack"
}

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