Parcel vs Bale - 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
Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
Suffering, woe, torment.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
(obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
(archaic) A funeral pyre.
(archaic) A beacon-fire.
A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
To wrap into a bale.
(British, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
In obsolete terms the difference between parcel and bale
is that parcel is part or half; in part; partially while bale is a large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.As an adverb parcel
is part or half; in part; partially.parcel
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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
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- That other swayne, like ashes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale .
