What's the difference between parcel and tract?

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.

Tract


Definition:

  • (n.) A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
  • (v.) Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
  • (v.) A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
  • (v.) Traits; features; lineaments.
  • (v.) The footprint of a wild beast.
  • (v.) Track; trace.
  • (v.) Treatment; exposition.
  • (v.) Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.
  • (v.) Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
  • (v.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.
  • (v. t.) To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
  • (3) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
  • (4) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (5) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
  • (6) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (7) Febrile reactions were not distributed randomly among the patients; those with respiratory tract infection experienced more febrile reactions during periods with infection than during periods without.
  • (8) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
  • (9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
  • (10) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
  • (11) The primary afferent fibers diverge in the brainstem into a short ascending and a long descending tract.
  • (12) About tow amyloid tumors diagnosed because of oropharyngeous signs, the authors remind the main symptoms at the upper airway and ENT tracts; the local, regional and general treatment will be discussed.
  • (13) Magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed for trapping electrophilic intermediates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
  • (14) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
  • (15) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
  • (16) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
  • (17) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
  • (18) A significant increase in the number of C. albicans CFU in homogenized and plated segments of the GI tract was recognized in mice with murine AIDS versus the control animals.
  • (19) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
  • (20) Both Shigella and Salmonella transferred multi-drug resistance to some enterobacteria--E. coli and Proteus as well as to Salmonella typhimurium when the latter was also present in the intestinal tract; of these some 10--40 per cent acquire the multi-drug resistance of Salmonella heidelberg and Shigella sonnei.