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Bag vs. Backpack

Bag and Backpack Definitions

Bag

A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

Backpack

A sturdy bag designed for carrying articles on a person's back, having shoulder straps and often mounted on a lightweight frame.

Bag

A handbag; a purse.

Backpack

A piece of equipment, often containing life-support devices, designed to be used while being carried on the back
A parachute in a backpack.
An astronaut's backpack.

Bag

A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

Backpack

To hike or travel while carrying a backpack.
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Bag

A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.

Backpack

To carry in a backpack.

Bag

An object that resembles a pouch.

Backpack

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.

Bag

(Nautical) The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

Backpack

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

The amount that a bag can hold.

Backpack

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

Bag

An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

Backpack

(intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.

Bag

(Baseball) A base.

Backpack

To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
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Bag

(Slang) An area of interest or skill
Cooking is not my bag.

Backpack

A bag carried on the back, supported by straps looped over the shoulders.

Bag

(Slang) A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

Backpack

To hike while carrying a backpack; - often used in the form go backpacking; as, to backpack through the forest.

Bag

To put into a bag
Bag groceries.

Backpack

A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

Bag

To cause to bulge like a pouch.

Backpack

Hike with a backpack;
Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies

Bag

To capture or kill as game
Bagged six grouse.

Bag

To gain; acquire
He bagged a profit from the sale.

Bag

To capture or arrest
Was bagged for trespassing.

Bag

To accomplish or achieve
Bagged a birdie with a long putt.

Bag

To fail to attend purposely; skip
Bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.

Bag

To stop doing or considering; abandon
Bagged the idea and started from scratch.

Bag

To terminate the employment of.

Bag

To pack items in a bag.

Bag

To hang loosely
The pants bag at the knees.

Bag

To swell out; bulge.

Bag

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

Bag

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.

Bag

(colloquial) One's preference.
Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

Bag

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

Bag

A fellow gay man.

Bag

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

Bag

(baseball) First, second, or third base.
He headed back to the bag.

Bag

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

Bag

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, 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}.

Bag

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
The bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
The bag of a cow

Bag

A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

Bag

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

Bag

A scrotum.

Bag

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

Bag

A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

Bag

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

Bag

£1000, a grand.

Bag

(informal) A large number or amount.

Bag

(transitive) To put into a bag.

Bag

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

Bag

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
We bagged three deer yesterday.

Bag

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

Bag

(slang) To steal.

Bag

To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

Bag

(slang) To arrest.

Bag

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

Bag

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

Bag

To fit with a bag to collect urine.

Bag

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

Bag

To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
The brisk wind bagged the sails.

Bag

To hang like an empty bag.
His trousers bag at the knees.

Bag

To drop away from the correct course.

Bag

To become pregnant.

Bag

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

Bag

To show particular puffy emotion

Bag

To swell with arrogance.

Bag

To laugh uncontrollably.

Bag

To criticise sarcastically.

Bag

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

Bag

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

Bag

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

Bag

The quantity of game bagged.

Bag

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

Bag

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

Bag

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

Bag

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
A bee bagged with his honeyed venom.

Bag

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Bag

To swell with arrogance.

Bag

To become pregnant.

Bag

A flexible container with a single opening;
He stuffed his laundry into a large bag

Bag

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);
His bag included two deer

Bag

Place that runner must touch before scoring;
He scrambled to get back to the bag

Bag

A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);
She reached into her bag and found a comb

Bag

The quantity that a bag will hold;
He ate a large bag of popcorn

Bag

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;
He carried his small bag onto the plane with him

Bag

An ugly or ill-tempered woman;
He was romancing the old bag for her money

Bag

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Bag

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;
Chemistry is not my cup of tea
His bag now is learning to play golf
Marriage was scarcely his dish

Bag

Capture or kill, as in hunting;
Bag a few pheasants

Bag

Hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bag

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

Bag

Take unlawfully

Bag

Put into a bag;
The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries

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