Parcel vs Accumulation - What's the difference?
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A package wrapped for shipment.
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, chapter=2 An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
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(lb) A group of birds.
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:This youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
*1847 , (Herman Melville), (Omoo)
*:A parcel of giddy creatures of her own age.
A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
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*(John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
*:two parcels of the white of an egg
*(John Addington Symonds) (1840–1893)
*:The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.
To wrap something up into the form of a package.
To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out'' or ''into .
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Tennyson
The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
A mass of something piled up or collected.
(legal) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
(accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
(finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
As nouns the difference between parcel and accumulation
is that parcel is a package wrapped for shipment while accumulation is the act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.As a verb parcel
is to wrap something up into the form of a package.As an adverb parcel
is part or half; in part; partially.parcel
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}
Synonyms
* (package wrapped for shipment) package * (division of land bought and sold as a unit) plotDerived terms
* parcel bomb * parcel out * parcel post * parcel together * parcel up * parcellate * parcellation * part and parcel * pass the parcelSee also
* lot * allotmentVerb
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- Their woes are parcelled , mine are general.
- These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
- the broad woodland parcelled into farms
- That mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy.
Adverb
(-)- The worthy dame was parcel -blind.
- One that was parcel -bearded.
External links
* *Anagrams
* *accumulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors