(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.
Parrel
Definition:
(n.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.
(n.) A chimney-piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the temperature range from 40 to 80 degrees C the range of D is about 10 times larger than the range of D parrell, indicating a high activation energy for the librational motion arising from a strong hindrance by interaction with surrounding molecules.
(2) The motion of the cholestane spin label in oriented lecithin-cholesterol multibilayers is described in terms of a rotational diffusion about the long molecular axis with diffusion coefficient D parrell and a restricted random librational motion about axes perpendicular to the long axis with diffusion coefficient D1.
(3) Cholesterol contents up to 10-20 mole % give an increase of D parrell and D1, arising from strong decrease of the transition temperature in this range.
(4) The temperature dependence of D parrell and D1 clearly shows the transition from the gel to liquid crystalline phase.
(5) Above 10-20 mole % a reduction of D parrell and D1 is found.
(6) In the liquid crystalline phase at about 60 degrees C the effect of cholesterol on D parrell is even negligible, while D1 strongly changes.
(7) However, the effect of cholesterol is much stronger on D1 than on D parrell.