What's the difference between package and parcel?

Package


Definition:

  • (n.) Act or process of packing.
  • (n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.
  • (n.) A charge made for packing goods.
  • (n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (2) In contrast to the defect in another packaging-deficient mutant ts1201, the block in the formation of dense-cored, DNA-containing capsids in ts1233-infected cells at the NPT could not be reversed by transferring the cells to the permissive temperature in the presence of a protein synthesis inhibitor.
  • (3) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
  • (4) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (5) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
  • (6) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (7) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
  • (8) Finally, from the published manuals, the common components of these diverse, multi-component treatment packages of different family-intervention studies are identified."
  • (9) Temperature, relative humidity, and air movement around the package can influence the permeability of the film.
  • (10) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
  • (11) The LMM-GBPs specifically associated with LB may participate in intracellular events required for surfactant packaging and secretion.
  • (12) Another feature of TWINAN90 is the optional output of a pedigree file which can be read by the quantitative genetics package FISHER.
  • (13) Faulkner said: "Tobacco packaging is the last way in which the tobacco industry can advertise and market its lethal products; we have now stopped all conventional advertising and the retail display ban will come into in full effect in 2015.
  • (14) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
  • (15) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (16) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
  • (17) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
  • (18) A computer-programmed osteotomy package was used to measure agreed values from lateral cephalograms preoperatively, postoperatively, and during the follow-up period.
  • (19) By contrast, a Guardian Australia video of Labor's transport spokesman, Anthony Albanese, using a whiteboard to denounce the government's package received more than 60,000 hits.
  • (20) Five hundred fifteen senior baccalaureate nursing students randomly responded to one of two packages of 18 one-item pharmacology achievement tests.

Parcel


Definition:

  • (n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
  • (n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
  • (n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  • (n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
  • (v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
  • (v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
  • (v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
  • (a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (2) The anterior division can be further parcellated into dorsal, lateral, and ventral areas, and each of these areas, along with the posterior division, can be thought of as containing more-or-less discrete nuclei embedded within a relatively undifferentiated region.
  • (3) Cortical lamination and parcellation of the anterogenual region in the human brain is studied in sections successively stained for nerve cells (15 micrometers), myelin sheaths (100 micrometers), and lipofuscin granules (800 micrometers).
  • (4) "Amazingly my mobile number was on it, so they were inquiring where they should deliver the parcel," they added.
  • (5) Roy Perticucci, vice-president of Amazon’s EU operations, declined to comment on reports that its service had led to a 20% drop in Royal Mail’s parcel volumes in some localities, citing commercial confidentiality.
  • (6) A cyto- and myeloarchitectonic parcellation of the superior temporal sulcus and surrounding cortex in the rhesus monkey has been correlated with the pattern of afferent cortical connections from ipsilateral temporal, parietal and occipital lobes, studied by both silver impregnation and autoradiographic techniques.
  • (7) Death and injury are part and parcel of this job, Suge says.
  • (8) Bundled up in the complex debt parcels lurked the venom which has poisoned the banks.
  • (9) The present results show that, like rodents, the trigeminal nucleus principalis of humans contains a parcellated pattern of cytochrome oxidase dense patches.
  • (10) It was released by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and shows what happened when aid workers tried to give out food parcels at Yarmouk refugee camp on the edge of Damascus.
  • (11) But love him or hate him, by delivering the parcels and fixing the plumbing, WVM kept the economy ticking over.
  • (12) The republican terror alliance known as the New IRA admitted responsibility for a series of parcel bombs sent to army recruitment offices across England.
  • (13) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
  • (14) Hundreds of postcards, letters and parcels arrived, carrying not only words but also books, photographs, maps, stories and poems.
  • (15) Comparison of these results with published findings indicates that the parcellation of the peristriate cortex into a variety of different areas, the pattern formed by these areas around area 17, and their reciprocal connections with area 17 follow a common plan in all hitherto studied terrestrial Old World and New World rodents.
  • (16) Much less can I imagine where people find the strength to come to work in the middle of a war and distribute food parcels and emergency kits to the displaced while they worry for the safety of their families at home.
  • (17) Hermes, the parcel delivery giant which uses 10,500 self-employed couriers, is currently facing an HM Revenue and Customs investigation following multiple allegations from couriers that they should be classed as workers or employees rather than contractors.
  • (18) HJK said the request was "strange" but they volunteered their address thinking the parcel must have come from one of their family.
  • (19) This issue is considered in the context of recent findings on the generation of the neocortex and its subsequent parcellation into distinct areas.
  • (20) We propose that a useful parcellation of shapes into parts can be obtained by decomposing the shape boundary into the largest convex surface patches and the smallest nonconvex surface patches.