(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.
Particulate
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To particularize.
(a.) Having the form of a particle.
(a.) Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(3) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
(4) The formation of 1-naphthol from naphthalene was investigated in rat brain 105,000 g particulate fraction.
(5) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(6) The increased release of alkaline phosphatase from the particulate matrix by lysophosphatidylcholine was confirmed by disc electrophoresis.
(7) [3H]-oxytocin was specifically bound to the 105,000 X g particulate fractions from 5 lactating cows and 5 non-lactating cows.
(8) The kinetics of both the solube and particulate enzymes from epidermis of some elderly patients with either diabetes or ischaemia showed some differences from the kinetics of enzymes from healthy epidermis from younger individuals.
(9) The properties of the soluble enzymes, further purified by ion-exchange chromatography, and of the particulate keratan sulfate endoglycosidase are presented.
(10) PMA and bryostatin-1 translocated protein kinase-C activity from the soluble to particulate fractions of cell homogenates.
(11) This requires a subthreshold level of cyclin and the presence of a particulate factor in the extract.
(12) They attached themselves, by means of an organelle on the anterior cell surface, to particulate sources of these carbohydrates provided soluble protein was present in the medium.
(13) Protein kinase II activity was localized predominantly in the 100,000g particulate fraction of cerebrum and testis, in the supernatant fraction of heart, liver, adrenal, and kidney, and about equally distributed between particulate and supernatant in spleen and lung.
(14) The enzyme hydrogenase, from the photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium, was purified to homogeneity after solubilization of the particulate enzyme with deoxycholate.
(15) Protein A was recovered in the soluble fraction and protein B in the particulate (crude fiber) fraction.
(16) Much of the particulate material resembled cell debris.
(17) Maybe we need fewer buses, pumping out diesel particulates.
(18) We have investigated the interaction between concanavalin A-agarose (Con A-agarose) and thyroid peroxidase, an integral membrane protein found in the 105,000 X g, 1-h particulate fraction of thyroid tissue.
(19) The particulate activity was found to be composed of three low-Km isozymes as of the corresponding soluble fraction.
(20) 5-Hydroxytryptamine transporters in the affinity-purified preparation were identified by using the selective 5-hydroxytryptamine-uptake inhibitor [3H]paroxetine, and were shown to display a similar pharmacological profile to those present in particulate preparations.