Sekirov Dictionary

parcel

UK [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ]US /ˈpɑɹsəl/

noun 8
verb 4
adverb 1
forms 5
phrases 2

noun8

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A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport.
- I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
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A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
•
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
•
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- "Come, now," said the hill-man, "let us hear who else is to be at the christening?" "Ah," said the boy, "we are to have a great parcel of strangers and great people." — 1828
An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
(no longer used) A group of birds.

verb4

To wrap something up into the form of a package.
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To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
- Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general. — 1593
•
To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
•
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
- […] that mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy! — 1606

adverb1

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(no longer used) Part or half; in part; partially.
- Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […] — 1596

forms

parceled · parcelled · parceling · parcelling · parcels

Phrases with parcel

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