Definition of Parcel

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Parcel

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.

A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.

To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.

To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.

To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.

Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]

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Parcel Quotations

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Thomas Mann

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
Larry King

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Tertullian

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
Peter Schuyler

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Morris Hite

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
Oliver Tambo

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.
Theo Van Gogh

Parcel Translations

parcel in Afrikaans is pakkie
parcel in Danish is pakke
parcel in Dutch is pakje
parcel in French is paquet
parcel in Italian is pacchetto
parcel in Norwegian is pakke
parcel in Portuguese is pacote
parcel in Spanish is paquete
parcel in Swedish is paket

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