pack together

Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal.

pack someone or something together

to press or squeeze people or things together. The ushers packed the people together as much as they dared. They packed together all the people standing in the room. They packed the cups together too tightly and some broke.

See also: pack, together

References in periodicals archive ?

The researchers placed the liquid crystals in water, which caused the water-loving ends to pack together and form nanometer-scale pores.

For sweat's sake

If they can keep that pack together, there is no reason why they shouldn't win every game from now on.

Rugby Union: HAWKS CAN BE PERFECT; Premiership Round-up

For example, Paul Gailiunas, an artist in Newcastle, England, encouraged Erdely to look for additional spidron-based polyhedral forms that can pack together to fill space.

Swirling seas, crystal balls: spirals of triangles crinkle into intricate structures

If we can keep this pack together, and with the other opportunities coming from the bench, we have got depth coming from the forwards," said Straeuli in the aftermath of a game that saw South Africa score eight tries and their exciting fly-half prospect Derick Hougaard amass 21 points.

Rugby World Cup 2003: Boks rocked as crocked Joe is KO'd; World Cup Diary

High-density disks are the ones most likely to pack together lots of material rapidly into large, Jupiter-size planets, says Strom.

Peeling back Orion's layers: astronomers unveil a portrait of star formation

When a solid is squeezed under high pressure, its constituent atoms or molecules pack together tightly and have less room to move about.

Metal rebel: under extreme pressure, sodium breaks the rules for turning into liquid

Rather than forming into neatly organized lattices, the atoms in these mixtures are expected to pack together in a dense but randomly ordered arrangement--a glass.

Metal makeover: recasting metals as glass--for war and more

It enhances our understanding of one of the outstanding questions in science"--namely, how densely various types of objects can pack together.

M&Ms pack more tightly than spheres

Because perpendicular bits pack together more tightly than do longitudinal bits of the same size, this technique should produce denser storage without sacrificing thermal stability, says Kryder.

Memory enhancers: researchers explore future possibilities for dense data storage

When the bristle molecules assemble themselves onto a gold surface, they usually pack together so tightly that they can't bend over.

Material repels water on command. (Quick-Change Surface)

In Earth's core, iron atoms pack together and make crystals in the shape of hexagonal prisms, says Gerd Steinle-Neumann, a geophysicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Quantum physics explains core anomaly

Only three regular polygons pack together snugly without leaving gaps: equilateral triangles, squares, and regular hexagons.

The Honeycomb Conjecture

CORE considers only one aspect of what makes a protein hold together well: how tightly the hydrophobic, or water-avoiding, amino acids in the interior of the enzyme pack together.

Hot-blooded proteins: heat-loving enzymes stay cool under stress

They determined how strongly the molecules would attach to a simulated limestone surface and how densely the molecules would pack together there.

Consolidating the stone: new compounds may protect statues and buildings from weather damage

Thus, when a glass plate is dipped into a suspension of particles, the particles begin to pack together into a single layer near the water-air contact line.