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parcel

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

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parcel (plural parcels)

  1. A package wrapped for shipment.
    Synonym: package
    I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
    • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
      At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery‎[1]:
      “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […] ”
  2. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  3. An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
  4. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
    Synonym: plot
    I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
  5. (obsolete) A group of birds.
  6. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  7. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  8. 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.
    • 1731, John Arbuthnot, chapter 4, in An essay concerning the nature of aliments‎[2], London: J. Tonson, page 85:
      The same Experiments succeed on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]
    • 1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2,[3]
      The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.

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parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)

  1. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  2. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
    Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
  3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
  4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.

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parcel (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French parcelle (“parcel”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part”).

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parcel c (singular definite parcellen, plural indefinite parceller)

  1. parcel, lot (subdivided piece of land registred independently in official records)
  2. (informal) detached house
    Synonym: parcelhus

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Declension of parcel
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative parcel parcellen parceller parcellerne
genitive parcels parcellens parcellers parcellernes

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parcel m (plural parcéis)

  1. a shoal, a sandbank
    Synonyms: vau, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte
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