parcel
IPA: pˈɑrsʌɫ
noun
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- (obsolete) A group of birds.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
verb
- To wrap something up into the form of a package.
- To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
- To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
adverb
- (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
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Examples of "parcel" in Sentences
- The mailman was delivering some parcels.
- Its part and parcel of the events of the day.
- The parcel holds in moisture to steam the food.
- The land was parceled out to the conquistadores.
- That's part and parcel with the nature of the theory.
- The parcel is in the cloakroom wrapped in a raincoat.
- The shipper will segregate the parcels by their destination.
- That is part and parcel of the leftist view of the conflict.
- That was all part and parcel of the errors surrounding the block.
- Here, parcel B is the dominant tenement, and parcel A is the servient estate.
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