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单词 parcel
释义

parcel

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pärʹ-səl, IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹsəl/
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): [ˈpʰaː.səɫ]
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ]
    • (General American) IPA(key): [ˈpʰɑɹ.səɫ]
    • Audio (GA)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
  • Hyphenation: par‧cel

Noun

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 16832619:
      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:
      “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.
    • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
      […] this youthful parcel
      Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
    • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 364546898, page 79:
      […] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age […]
  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, An essay concerning the nature of aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 4, p. 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,
      The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.

Derived terms

  • bill of parcels
  • parcel bomb
  • parcellate
  • parcellation
  • parcel locker
  • parcel out
  • parcel post
  • parcel shelf
  • parcel together
  • parcel up
  • part and parcel
  • pass the parcel
  • part
  • particle
  • particular
  • particulate

Translations

See also

  • lot
  • allotment

Verb

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 out or into.
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
      Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.
    • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour […]‎, London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, published 1667, Act I, scene ii, page 12:
      Thoſe ghoſtly Kings would parcel out my pow’r,
      And all the fatneſs of my Land devour;
    • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, pp. 94-95,
      Then the great Hall was wholly broken down,
      And the broad woodland parcell’d into farms;
  4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
    • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
      […] that mine own servant should
      Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
      Addition of his envy!

Translations

Adverb

parcel (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
    • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
      Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]
    • 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, OCLC 991895633:
      […] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]
    • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 879237670, page 59:
      here was one [a hut] that, summer-blanch’d,
      Was parcel-bearded with the traveller’s-joy
      In Autumn, parcel ivy-clad;

Further reading

  • parcel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • parcel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

  • Placer, carpel, craple, placer

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʰɑˈsɛlˀ]

Noun

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

Inflection

Declension of parcel
common
gender		SingularPlural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativeparcelparcellenparcellerparcellerne
genitiveparcelsparcellensparcellersparcellernes

Portuguese

Noun

parcel m (plural parcéis)

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