You can hold this word as one moment: a space, and things being pressed into it until the empty room is gone. Sometimes you are the one pressing, and that is the evening's work before a trip. Sometimes the word names the stuff you press in. Sometimes it names how everything ended up sitting. And sometimes it names what you were charged for doing it. Filling the space is the part that never changes.
From the word’s history
The source records it as Middle English pakkynge, that is the verb and noun pack plus -ing. The -ing form is what lets one word cover the doing, the stuff used in the doing, the result of the doing and the charge for it.
辭源資料記的是中古英語 pakkynge，也就是 pack 加上 -ing。正是這個 -ing 讓同一個字可以同時指「做這件事」、「做這件事用的東西」、「做完之後的樣子」，還有「做這件事收你的錢」。
Wiktionary entry for packing (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1111144642:10284)
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原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
packingnoun/ˈpakɪŋ/
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The action of the verb.
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mathematicssciencesThe action of the verb.
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The action of the verb.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe action of the verb.
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As a concrete noun.
- A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly.
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As a concrete noun.
- Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating).
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As a concrete noun.
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As a concrete noun.
- Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- pack
- meatpacking
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。