What's the difference between parcel and pastry?

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.

Pastry


Definition:

  • (n.) The place where pastry is made.
  • (n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
  • (2) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
  • (3) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
  • (4) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
  • (5) Gently fold the pastry surrounding the tin base inwards so it is on the base.
  • (6) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
  • (7) What I enjoy doing is teaching people how to make pastry, and it really is easy, so I would like to share some of what I know,” she said.
  • (8) The recipe below is for 10 classic shortcrust pastry tarts but it can easily be modified.
  • (9) There is a big choice of salads at lunch and brunch is served at the weekend, but the best plan is to enjoy afternoon tea – with a dozen different brews to choose from, accompanied by freshly-baked pastries.
  • (10) This handling range is particularly important for laminated pastries, such as filo, which require layers of solid fat.
  • (11) 8.47pm BST Frances is wrapping little pastry horns around tiny steel cones.
  • (12) This air then expands on heating, giving height to your pastry.
  • (13) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
  • (14) 6 Pour the custard mix into the pastry case, then grate the nutmeg on top (do not use ready-ground nutmeg).
  • (15) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
  • (16) On paper, the main difference between puff and shortcrust pastry appears to be the fat content.
  • (17) Roll out the pastry thinly, and line the prepared tin with it.
  • (18) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
  • (19) Feed consumed by rats fed with the corresponding commercial pastries was low except in date bars group.
  • (20) He was once an extravagant cook, a person who made pastry and boeuf bourguignon.