Decrease and Pack

decrease

noun

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

pack

noun

A large indefinite number.
- usage: "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"
- synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality
A complete collection of similar things.
A convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film. )
An association of criminals.
- usage: "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"
- synonyms: gang, ring, mob
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.
- synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp
A group of hunting animals.
A cream that cleanses and tones the skin.
- synonyms: face pack
A sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect.
A bundle (especially one carried on the back. )

verb

Arrange in a container.
- usage: "pack the books into the boxes"
Fill to capacity.
- usage: "This singer always packs the concert halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house"
Compress into a wad.
- usage: "wad paper into the box"
- synonyms: bundle, wad, compact
Carry, as on one's back.
- usage: "Pack your tents to the top of the mountain"
Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome.
- usage: "pack a jury"
Have with oneself; have on one's person.
- usage: "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"
- synonyms: carry, take
Press tightly together or cram.
- usage: "The crowd packed the auditorium"
- synonyms: throng, mob, pile, jam
Hike with a backpack.
- usage: "Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies"
- synonyms: backpack
Press down tightly.
- usage: "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso"
- synonyms: tamp down, tamp
Seal with packing.
- usage: "pack the faucet"
Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.
- usage: "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
- synonyms: compact
Load with a pack.
- synonyms: load down
Treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood.
- usage: "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"

(n.) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.
(v.t.) To cover, envelop or protect tightly with something;.
(v.t.) to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
(n.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated.
(v.i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
(n.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.
(n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
(n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.
(n.) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play or the audience, packs the theater.
(n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
(n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
(n.) A shook of cask staves.
(v.i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
(n.) An envelope or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
(n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
(n.) A pact.
(n.) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.
(n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
(v.i.) To make up packs, bales or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
(n.) Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.
(n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
(v.i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
(v.i.) To admit of stowage or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
(n.) A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
(n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
(n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things.
(n.) To transport in a pack or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
(n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
(n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
(n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
(n.) A loose, lewd or worthless person. See Baggage.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pack is a Forward (q. V.) Strip (q. V.,#2), each corresponding to a particular year, of four consecutive, quarterly Eurodollar or Euroyen futures contracts. Markets, such as Simex offer a Pack as a convenient package of futures contracts, without the execution risk inherent in building up the Strip, contract by contract. A trader can use Packs and Bundles (q. V.) to implement bets on the change in shape of the Forward Curve.

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