Words that rhyme with package

  • adage
    n 1: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: proverb, adage, saw, byword]
  • average
    adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)] 2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, ordinary] 3: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] 4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium] 5: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average] 6: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, norm] 2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities 3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average" v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" [syn: average, average out] 2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" 3: compute the average of [syn: average, average out]
  • baggage
    n 1: cases used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: baggage, luggage] 2: a worthless or immoral woman 3: the portable equipment and supplies of an army
  • bandage
    n 1: a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body [syn: bandage, patch] v 1: wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn: bind, bandage] 2: dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"; "bandage an incision"
  • blockage
    n 1: the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction [syn: obstruction, blockage] 2: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage] 3: the act of blocking [syn: blockage, closure, occlusion]
  • breakage
    n 1: the quantity broken; "the total breakage was huge" 2: reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use 3: the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking]
  • cabbage
    n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: cabbage, chou] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: cabbage, cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea] v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
  • corkage
    n 1: a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises
  • damage
    n 1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment] 2: loss of military equipment [syn: damage, equipment casualty] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] 4: the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?" [syn: price, terms, damage] 5: any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage] v 1: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" 2: suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"
  • dockage
    n 1: a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock [syn: dockage, docking fee] 2: landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late" [syn: dock, dockage, docking facility] 3: the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes [syn: docking, moorage, dockage, tying up]
  • freightage
    n 1: the charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper" [syn: freight, freightage, freight rate] 2: transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates [syn: freight, freightage]
  • leakage
    n 1: the discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" [syn: escape, leak, leakage, outflow]
  • linkage
    n 1: an associative relation 2: (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) [syn: linkage, gene linkage] 3: a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion 4: the act of linking things together
  • lockage
    n 1: a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway 2: a system of locks in a canal or waterway 3: passage through a lock in a canal or waterway
  • luggage
    n 1: cases used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: baggage, luggage]
  • marriage
    n 1: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock] 2: two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" [syn: marriage, married couple, man and wife] 3: the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [syn: marriage, wedding, marriage ceremony] 4: a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
  • mortgage
    n 1: a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan v 1: put up as security or collateral
  • savage
    adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral, ferine, savage] 3: without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild] 4: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage] n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage, barbarian] 2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] v 1: attack brutally and fiercely 2: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify]
  • shrinkage
    n 1: process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" [syn: shrinking, shrinkage] 2: the amount by which something shrinks 3: the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting" [syn: shoplifting, shrinkage]
  • wreckage
    n 1: the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; "they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors"
  • socage
    n 1: land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service
  • tankage
    n 1: the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks 2: the charge for storing something in tanks 3: the act of storing in tanks
  • truckage
    n 1: a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage 2: the activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: hauling, trucking, truckage]
  • repackage
  • brakeage
  • trackage
  • prepackage
  • burgage

See also package definition and package synonyms