Bag vs. Backpack

Bag vs. Backpack — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Bag and Backpack

Bagnoun

A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

Backpacknoun

A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.

Bagnoun

(informal) A handbag

Backpacknoun

A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

Bagnoun

A suitcase.

Backpackverb

(intransitive) to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack

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Bagnoun

A schoolbag, especially a backpack.

Backpackverb

(intransitive) to engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations

Bagnoun

One’s preference.

Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

Backpackverb

(transitive) to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack

Bagnoun

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

Backpacknoun

a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

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Bagnoun

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

Backpackverb

hike with a backpack;

Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies

Bagnoun

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

He headed back to the bag.

Bagnoun

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

Bagnoun

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

Bagnoun

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpentsthe bag of a cow

Bagnoun

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

Bagnoun

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

Bagnoun

A scrotum.

Bagnoun

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

Bagverb

To put into a bag.

Bagverb

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

We bagged three deer yesterday.

Bagverb

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

Bagverb

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

Bagverb

To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

Bagverb

To laugh uncontrollably.

Bagverb

To criticise sarcastically.

Bagverb

(medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

Bagverb

To swell or hang down like a full bag.

The skin bags from containing morbid matter.The brisk wind bagged the sails.

Bagverb

To hang like an empty bag.

His trousers bag at the knees.

Bagverb

To swell with arrogance.

Bagverb

To become pregnant.

Bagnoun

a flexible container with a single opening;

he stuffed his laundry into a large bag

Bagnoun

the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);

his bag included two deer

Bagnoun

place that runner must touch before scoring;

he scrambled to get back to the bag

Bagnoun

a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

she reached into her bag and found a comb

Bagnoun

the quantity that a bag will hold;

he ate a large bag of popcorn

Bagnoun

a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

he carried his small bag onto the plane with him

Bagnoun

an ugly or ill-tempered woman;

he was romancing the old bag for her money

Bagnoun

mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Bagnoun

an activity that you like or at which you are superior;

chemistry is not my cup of teahis bag now is learning to play golfmarriage was scarcely his dish

Bagverb

capture or kill, as in hunting;

bag a few pheasants

Bagverb

hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bagverb

bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Bagverb

take unlawfully

Bagverb

put into a bag;

The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries