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Definition of parcel in English: parcelnounPlural parcels ˈpɑːs(ə)lˈpɑrsəl 1An object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post. 包裹 the lorry was carrying a large number of Royal Mail parcels as modifier a parcel bomb Example sentencesExamples - They found Tom Fisher standing there holding a large parcel wrapped in brown paper.
- In the end I did choose to use the Royal Mail service which enables you to collect the parcel from a local post office for a fee of 50p.
- Others have received parcels sent for free by their families at home.
- Every part of the postal business lost huge amounts of money last year, including UK parcels, Royal Mail, international mail and parcels and the post office network.
- We have also heard from people who used the post office to send parcels and things, so we are determined to have one in the village.
- Viewers on either side of the world now share knowledge of these soft white papers, delicately wrapped parcels and small metal plates, the same shape as calling cards and full of curious codes.
- I collected a parcel from the post office, went shopping amongst the madness of Beirut.
- She fished into her pocket until she pulled out a tiny parcel of tissue paper.
- Also, colonists were sending their parcels through the post without stamps.
- I cannot find your address in our back up folders, please could you send it to us, and we will put the parcel in the post today.
- One day, being in the Alcala at Toledo, I saw a young lad offer to sell a parcel of old written papers to a shopkeeper.
- Mac had the car door open, and was walking towards the van, a bunch of flowers in his hands, and the wrapped parcel under one arm.
- Helen's mouth fell open in disbelief as he handed her a small parcel wrapped in brown paper.
- Here, town people can bring their own livestock to be slaughtered and then returned to them in paper parcels.
- The mother of a soldier with the British troops in Iraq is appealing for help to collect and send parcels of goodies to the servicemen and women there.
- It was a tiny box wrapped in plan brown parcel paper and tied with twine.
- She held out a plain, brown paper parcel to him, roughly tied with string still dripping in bacon fat.
- Mr Davies said people sending parcels containing suspicious or illegal substances often paid extra for postage to prevent further weighing or postal service checks.
- Lans walked over to his bed, and picked up the parcel of paper.
- Just 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighing a little over six stones, she had a special trolley provided by the Post Office to help carry the heavy parcels and letters around.
Synonyms package, packet pack, carton, bundle, box, case, bale archaic fardel 2A quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction. 一批东西，尤指商业交易一次涉及的量 一批股票。 Example sentencesExamples - What has happened in these two cases essentially is that the shares in the preference class have been valued in the way that minority parcels of shares are valued on the market when no takeover offer is in contemplation.
- ABN Amro Craig's Matt Willis said this was not an excessive discount, given the size of the parcel of shares.
- Big charities can bundle share parcels together, making them much more valuable.
- In fact, what happened - there is a parcel of ANZ shares and there are parcels of other shares, and so he took, as we understand it, half of those shares and his brother took the other half.
- Large parcels of shares in the Prince Alfred mine were held by John Reynell of Reynella and his son Walter.
- They are far from pleased that the issue has dragged on for seven years since the first parcel of shares was sold off immediately after Howard won government in 1996.
- Just before you begin, Mr Shaw, I understand the parties have been informed that I hold a small parcel of shares in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.
- I doubt many readers will be in that bracket, but thousands of small share parcels may also go unclaimed.
- Therefore, why don't a few members of the 15,000-strong Crikey army buy a small parcel of News Corp shares and give us there proxies.
- Standard Life policyholders are likely to be offered parcels of shares in the flotation of the insurance giant next year as it claims support for the conversion is now ahead of the required threshold.
- Many stock-market investors own small parcels of shares that they hang on to purely because it would cost more to sell them than they are worth.
Synonyms group, band, pack, gang, crowd, mob, company, collection, horde, party, troop informal crew, bunch - 2.1 A piece of land, especially one considered as part of an estate.
一块土地（尤指地产的一部分） she decided to divide her property into three parcels and invite sealed bids Example sentencesExamples - Evans said the other 17-acre parcel has generated some offers, but no contracts.
- At Wild Turkey, which opened in June, Rulewich had to piece together several distinct parcels of land into one seamless golf course.
- Suppose you owned a large parcel of land, which includes a large wooded area, home to an endanger species of owl.
- Curtilages and tenters were parcels of open land, probably used for some kind of industrial or artisan activity.
- Civil 3D includes a variety of tools to subdivide tracts of land into parcels with predefined areas.
- Stark says the turn of events is disappointing, and notes the land was the largest parcel in the area that doesn't require rezoning, a process that could take a couple of years.
- Such territories were sufficiently significant by the eighth century that most references to estates, tenant houses, and land parcels in our documents are explicitly attached to a village.
- Through hard work and perseverance he acquired a good parcel of land and farmed it for some sixty years.
- There are other parcels of land beneficially held by the estate, which the trustee acknowledges are not integral to the businesses.
- Holdouts are dealt with by real estate developers assembling parcels of land in a variety of ways.
- Farmers will also be able to print maps of their land parcels which they can use solely for Area Aid purposes.
- When a parcel of real estate is being evaluated for possible purchase, use the assessment as an informational resource.
- A land-use feasibility study commissioned by the Central Sydney Area Health Service identified three parcels of land that could be sold.
- Farming a small parcel of land Tom made a big name for himself as a water diviner with his services in big demand throughout the county.
- A lot of it was due to shrewd real estate acquisitions, anticipating property trends and securing key parcels of land for low prices.
- For many years he farmed a small parcel of land in Kilcolman and came to the local Kilcolman creamery with his donkey and cart.
- The Countryside Agency claimed a partial victory because of the two parcels of land declared open countryside.
- In recognition of his spearmen he gave them each a parcel of land in the area.
- The legal estate of two separate parcels of land at Baydon Farm amounting to some 184 acres and some 108 acres vested in Major Stibbard prior to his death.
- Farming a small parcel of land on the side of Kockanore Hill Jerry earned a great reputation for his fine garden.
Synonyms plot, piece, patch, tract, area, section, allotment North American lot, plat - 2.2derogatory, archaic A group of people of a specified sort.
〈古，贬〉（人的）一帮, 一伙 一批股票。 Example sentencesExamples - A greater parcel of dimwits I never saw.
- 2.3technical A portion of a larger body of air or other fluid considered as a discrete element.
〈技〉一部分（气体或液体） an inversion forms a barrier to a rising parcel of air Example sentencesExamples - For example, if the sun warms a parcel of air, the liquid water molecules speed up and become vapor, so evaporation dominates.
- Air parcels at higher heights over the equator are accelerated down the gradient toward the pole by the force of gravity.
- Because the air in the parcel now occupies more space, it has a lower density than the relatively cooler air parcels.
- The air parcel, however, has mass and therefore weight.
- The energy of all systems is quantized, that is, energy can be absorbed or released in discrete parcels or packets.
verbparcels, parcelled, parcelling, parceled, parceling ˈpɑːs(ə)lˈpɑrsəl [with object]1Make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it. 把…包起来 he parcelled up the goods and sent them back Example sentencesExamples - The food on the display table was parcelled for home, the buses pulled in to take the students away, the teachers, chefs and their guests smiled at the good of it all.
- You parcel up the boxes again: nothing has been quenched.
- Our children are now being tested at six (and seven, and eight…) not just 16, parcelled up as either academic or non-academic when they are barely out of the sandpit.
- One consultant said that Iraqi contractors would win work from the US or the military, parcel it up and sell it in the city's market, taking a slice for themselves.
- Each present must be brand new and unwrapped - this will help care managers to organise the gifts before parcelling them up and giving them to the children.
- Those who do have to move will undergo traumatic shock and this needs to be taken into account before parcelling them up and shipping them out.
- She parceled it up and set it on the nightstand to remind her to send it.
- The hoard had been buried in a lead chest, fragments of which survive, and the presence of small bone pins suggests that some of the coins or bullion had been parcelled up into separate bags or parcels, secured by these pins.
- This is a complete illusion, as you're not clearing your debt, you're simply parcelling it up and handing it to a different lender!
- I parcelled them up and gave them to my local Member of Parliament to ask the government to consider holding a referendum on whether New Zealand should introduce Capital Punishment.
- The first memory has long since been parcelled up with my childhood, folded neatly away when my grandmother died eight years ago.
- ‘They have to be parcelled up and sent by taxi which is ludicrous in this day and age,’ he said
- I've just parcelled my first bit of ripped up junkmail back in its prepaid envelope and sent it back from whence it came.
- Whatever was put in the players' Bovril at half time should be parcelled up and sold as a post-Christmas tonic.
- We parcelled up the goods, my friend opened her purse and quietly put the same amount of money into the packet.
- It's an incredible bit of work, and I've parcelled up our top secret plans and sent them to the Ministry of Defence who will no doubt see me as the next Barnes Wallace and get British Aerospace onto it with all due haste.
- Firstly, either cut up the credit cards or parcel them up and put them away.
- Playboy has already parcelled up packages of programming to suit consumers' individual tastes in each region of the world, based on experience from selling porn on pay-per-view services.
- He didn't even skim through looking for blindingly obvious spelling mistakes; he just parcelled it up and shipped it out.
- I might parcel a bit up and send it back to the authorities and demand a refund on my council tax.
Synonyms pack, pack up, package, wrap, wrap up, gift-wrap, tie up, do up, box, box up, bundle up, fasten together - 1.1parcel something out Divide into portions and then distribute.
分配 the farmers argue that parcelling out commercial farmland in small plots will reduce productivity 农民们争辩说把商品农田划成小块分配将会降低生产率。 Example sentencesExamples - Joyce's material was parcelled out to friends and associates during the war to keep it safe from the Gestapo.
- And since the land is being parceled out piecemeal, each project will be a lurid, fenced-in recreation of First World living conditions in Third World surroundings.
- In North Africa, meager amounts of air cover were parceled out to each ground commander.
- It's a job-share the whole way, between consciousness and automaticity, with attention being parcelled out in a few large and many tiny chunks.
- Because the orders are likely to have been parcelled out among various brokers, it is difficult to assess the scope of China's problem.
- My company doesn't have a risk-management model, per se - and then blame is typically parceled out to the lowest common denominator.
- Obviously there are already many signs of this but do you think the future of the internet (and technology in general) will be parceled out to the highest bidder, like radio?
- Wealth is still to be parceled out by the state in ways unrelated to production - according to social justice.
- When the money was redistributed among each organization, it was parceled out and divided into 20 equal shares.
- But how can the 21% figure be parceled out individually to each factor?
- Perhaps the idea is that if you parcel something out into shares, everyone gets a different piece; and therefore it makes sense to talk about A and B sharing properties X and Y, where you mean that A gets X and B gets Y.
- In 1937, cottages expropriated to make way for the airport were floated across to Algonquin Island, and after WWII, the remainder of Algonquin was parcelled out to vets and their families to deal with a housing shortage.
- An aging King Lear is parcelling his land out among his daughters.
- The big bomber comprised more than 100,000 parts, and construction was parceled out to several companies.
- Rice paddies in varying states of cultivation are parceled out in crazy-quilt patterns.
- It provides 85 percent of the state budget and is the basis of the state's optimistically named Permanent Fund, whose dividends are parceled out annually: Last fall, every man, woman and child in Alaska received a check for US $1,963.86.
- Beaches are parceled out along a convoluted coastline equal to France's in length, and islands range from backwaters where the boat calls twice a week to resorts as cosmopolitan as any in the Mediterranean.
- Examples abound of cosy sinecures being parcelled out to those who have served in constitutional posts.
- In New York, families of fire-fighters and other victims argue over how vast compensation packages are parcelled out.
- The indicator was then parceled out to the progeny neurons as the injected cell underwent the cell divisions as the animal developed.
Synonyms divide up, portion out, distribute, share out, allocate, allot, apportion, hand out, give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, dispense, split up, carve up informal divvy up, dish out
2Nautical
Wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas, before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing. 〔航海〕用涂油帆布条缠包（绳索）
PhrasesA children's game in which a parcel is passed around to the accompaniment of music, the child holding the parcel when the music stops being allowed to unwrap a layer. 传包裹（儿童游戏，听音乐传包裹，音乐停止时拿着包裹的儿童可打开一层包裹皮） the last party I went to, I ate too much jelly and was sick during pass the parcel Example sentencesExamples - The result was that possession felt decidedly temporary, leading to a frenetic attempt to score in one phase with every use of the ball, which usually deteriorated into an unsightly version of pass the parcel.
- Wilde's epigrams slip from character to character like a game of pass the parcel and significant moments flutter helplessly alongside the frivolous, until it all starts to sound the same.
- ‘It was a case of pass the parcel,’ said the civil servant.
- About 30 youngsters had been dancing and playing games like pass the parcel and bingo when the gunman walked in.
- After he has extracted himself from the room full of children, he is relieved to remove his hat and beard; he's feeling rather hot after the children's party games of pass the parcel and musical statues.
- It is little wonder that we have this sort of chaos within the building industry when that is the sort of game of pass the parcel that this Labour Cabinet plays in its approach to building issues.
- The children are excited about the party and there will be plenty of fun and games, including pass the parcel and a treasure hunt, and we will also be having a visit from Father Christmas.
- A game of pass the parcel developed, the loser being the diver holding the balloon when it popped.
- So we spent the afternoon in isolation in our bedroom, dreaming of pass the parcel and Punch and Judy and paedophile alcoholic magicians pulling rabbits out of hats.
- We bring in traditional games like pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey - but we relate them to the theme.
OriginLate Middle English (chiefly in the sense 'small portion'): from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula 'small part'. Latin particula ‘small part’, from pars source of part, has given us parcel. In early use it shared with part the notion of something forming a section of a larger whole, as in a parcel of land. This survives in contexts such as part and parcel [16th], and to parcel out. The modern sense developed in the 17th century and initially concentrated on its contents, which would usually be a quantity of a substance or a number of goods wrapped up in a single package.
Rhymescastle, metatarsal, tarsal Definition of parcel in US English: parcelnounˈpɑrsəlˈpärsəl 1A thing or collection of things wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by mail. 包裹 Example sentencesExamples - Mac had the car door open, and was walking towards the van, a bunch of flowers in his hands, and the wrapped parcel under one arm.
- Just 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighing a little over six stones, she had a special trolley provided by the Post Office to help carry the heavy parcels and letters around.
- They found Tom Fisher standing there holding a large parcel wrapped in brown paper.
- Lans walked over to his bed, and picked up the parcel of paper.
- One day, being in the Alcala at Toledo, I saw a young lad offer to sell a parcel of old written papers to a shopkeeper.
- Here, town people can bring their own livestock to be slaughtered and then returned to them in paper parcels.
- I collected a parcel from the post office, went shopping amongst the madness of Beirut.
- Helen's mouth fell open in disbelief as he handed her a small parcel wrapped in brown paper.
- The mother of a soldier with the British troops in Iraq is appealing for help to collect and send parcels of goodies to the servicemen and women there.
- She held out a plain, brown paper parcel to him, roughly tied with string still dripping in bacon fat.
- Also, colonists were sending their parcels through the post without stamps.
- In the end I did choose to use the Royal Mail service which enables you to collect the parcel from a local post office for a fee of 50p.
- She fished into her pocket until she pulled out a tiny parcel of tissue paper.
- I cannot find your address in our back up folders, please could you send it to us, and we will put the parcel in the post today.
- Viewers on either side of the world now share knowledge of these soft white papers, delicately wrapped parcels and small metal plates, the same shape as calling cards and full of curious codes.
- It was a tiny box wrapped in plan brown parcel paper and tied with twine.
- Mr Davies said people sending parcels containing suspicious or illegal substances often paid extra for postage to prevent further weighing or postal service checks.
- Every part of the postal business lost huge amounts of money last year, including UK parcels, Royal Mail, international mail and parcels and the post office network.
- We have also heard from people who used the post office to send parcels and things, so we are determined to have one in the village.
- Others have received parcels sent for free by their families at home.
2A quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction. 一批东西，尤指商业交易一次涉及的量 一批股票。 Example sentencesExamples - Therefore, why don't a few members of the 15,000-strong Crikey army buy a small parcel of News Corp shares and give us there proxies.
- Many stock-market investors own small parcels of shares that they hang on to purely because it would cost more to sell them than they are worth.
- In fact, what happened - there is a parcel of ANZ shares and there are parcels of other shares, and so he took, as we understand it, half of those shares and his brother took the other half.
- Standard Life policyholders are likely to be offered parcels of shares in the flotation of the insurance giant next year as it claims support for the conversion is now ahead of the required threshold.
- Just before you begin, Mr Shaw, I understand the parties have been informed that I hold a small parcel of shares in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.
- Big charities can bundle share parcels together, making them much more valuable.
- What has happened in these two cases essentially is that the shares in the preference class have been valued in the way that minority parcels of shares are valued on the market when no takeover offer is in contemplation.
- Large parcels of shares in the Prince Alfred mine were held by John Reynell of Reynella and his son Walter.
- I doubt many readers will be in that bracket, but thousands of small share parcels may also go unclaimed.
- They are far from pleased that the issue has dragged on for seven years since the first parcel of shares was sold off immediately after Howard won government in 1996.
- ABN Amro Craig's Matt Willis said this was not an excessive discount, given the size of the parcel of shares.
Synonyms group, band, pack, gang, crowd, mob, company, collection, horde, party, troop - 2.1 A piece of land, especially one considered as part of an estate.
一块土地（尤指地产的一部分） Example sentencesExamples - Suppose you owned a large parcel of land, which includes a large wooded area, home to an endanger species of owl.
- There are other parcels of land beneficially held by the estate, which the trustee acknowledges are not integral to the businesses.
- Farming a small parcel of land Tom made a big name for himself as a water diviner with his services in big demand throughout the county.
- Such territories were sufficiently significant by the eighth century that most references to estates, tenant houses, and land parcels in our documents are explicitly attached to a village.
- For many years he farmed a small parcel of land in Kilcolman and came to the local Kilcolman creamery with his donkey and cart.
- Farming a small parcel of land on the side of Kockanore Hill Jerry earned a great reputation for his fine garden.
- Civil 3D includes a variety of tools to subdivide tracts of land into parcels with predefined areas.
- A lot of it was due to shrewd real estate acquisitions, anticipating property trends and securing key parcels of land for low prices.
- At Wild Turkey, which opened in June, Rulewich had to piece together several distinct parcels of land into one seamless golf course.
- Evans said the other 17-acre parcel has generated some offers, but no contracts.
- Holdouts are dealt with by real estate developers assembling parcels of land in a variety of ways.
- The Countryside Agency claimed a partial victory because of the two parcels of land declared open countryside.
- The legal estate of two separate parcels of land at Baydon Farm amounting to some 184 acres and some 108 acres vested in Major Stibbard prior to his death.
- Curtilages and tenters were parcels of open land, probably used for some kind of industrial or artisan activity.
- Farmers will also be able to print maps of their land parcels which they can use solely for Area Aid purposes.
- A land-use feasibility study commissioned by the Central Sydney Area Health Service identified three parcels of land that could be sold.
- Through hard work and perseverance he acquired a good parcel of land and farmed it for some sixty years.
- When a parcel of real estate is being evaluated for possible purchase, use the assessment as an informational resource.
- Stark says the turn of events is disappointing, and notes the land was the largest parcel in the area that doesn't require rezoning, a process that could take a couple of years.
- In recognition of his spearmen he gave them each a parcel of land in the area.
Synonyms plot, piece, patch, tract, area, section, allotment - 2.2technical A portion of a larger body of air or other fluid considered as a discrete element.
〈技〉一部分（气体或液体） an inversion forms a barrier to a rising parcel of air Example sentencesExamples - Because the air in the parcel now occupies more space, it has a lower density than the relatively cooler air parcels.
- Air parcels at higher heights over the equator are accelerated down the gradient toward the pole by the force of gravity.
- For example, if the sun warms a parcel of air, the liquid water molecules speed up and become vapor, so evaporation dominates.
- The air parcel, however, has mass and therefore weight.
- The energy of all systems is quantized, that is, energy can be absorbed or released in discrete parcels or packets.
verbˈpɑrsəlˈpärsəl [with object]1Make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it. 把…包起来 he parceled up the goods and sent them back Example sentencesExamples - Those who do have to move will undergo traumatic shock and this needs to be taken into account before parcelling them up and shipping them out.
- One consultant said that Iraqi contractors would win work from the US or the military, parcel it up and sell it in the city's market, taking a slice for themselves.
- I've just parcelled my first bit of ripped up junkmail back in its prepaid envelope and sent it back from whence it came.
- The first memory has long since been parcelled up with my childhood, folded neatly away when my grandmother died eight years ago.
- ‘They have to be parcelled up and sent by taxi which is ludicrous in this day and age,’ he said
- She parceled it up and set it on the nightstand to remind her to send it.
- Our children are now being tested at six (and seven, and eight…) not just 16, parcelled up as either academic or non-academic when they are barely out of the sandpit.
- I parcelled them up and gave them to my local Member of Parliament to ask the government to consider holding a referendum on whether New Zealand should introduce Capital Punishment.
- It's an incredible bit of work, and I've parcelled up our top secret plans and sent them to the Ministry of Defence who will no doubt see me as the next Barnes Wallace and get British Aerospace onto it with all due haste.
- Playboy has already parcelled up packages of programming to suit consumers' individual tastes in each region of the world, based on experience from selling porn on pay-per-view services.
- We parcelled up the goods, my friend opened her purse and quietly put the same amount of money into the packet.
- Each present must be brand new and unwrapped - this will help care managers to organise the gifts before parcelling them up and giving them to the children.
- You parcel up the boxes again: nothing has been quenched.
- Whatever was put in the players' Bovril at half time should be parcelled up and sold as a post-Christmas tonic.
- I might parcel a bit up and send it back to the authorities and demand a refund on my council tax.
- This is a complete illusion, as you're not clearing your debt, you're simply parcelling it up and handing it to a different lender!
- Firstly, either cut up the credit cards or parcel them up and put them away.
- The food on the display table was parcelled for home, the buses pulled in to take the students away, the teachers, chefs and their guests smiled at the good of it all.
- He didn't even skim through looking for blindingly obvious spelling mistakes; he just parcelled it up and shipped it out.
- The hoard had been buried in a lead chest, fragments of which survive, and the presence of small bone pins suggests that some of the coins or bullion had been parcelled up into separate bags or parcels, secured by these pins.
Synonyms pack, pack up, package, wrap, wrap up, gift-wrap, tie up, do up, box, box up, bundle up, fasten together - 1.1parcel something out Divide into portions and then distribute.
分配 they will start parceling out radio frequencies for digital cordless telephones Example sentencesExamples - The big bomber comprised more than 100,000 parts, and construction was parceled out to several companies.
- Joyce's material was parcelled out to friends and associates during the war to keep it safe from the Gestapo.
- Rice paddies in varying states of cultivation are parceled out in crazy-quilt patterns.
- My company doesn't have a risk-management model, per se - and then blame is typically parceled out to the lowest common denominator.
- Beaches are parceled out along a convoluted coastline equal to France's in length, and islands range from backwaters where the boat calls twice a week to resorts as cosmopolitan as any in the Mediterranean.
- In North Africa, meager amounts of air cover were parceled out to each ground commander.
- When the money was redistributed among each organization, it was parceled out and divided into 20 equal shares.
- An aging King Lear is parcelling his land out among his daughters.
- Examples abound of cosy sinecures being parcelled out to those who have served in constitutional posts.
- Perhaps the idea is that if you parcel something out into shares, everyone gets a different piece; and therefore it makes sense to talk about A and B sharing properties X and Y, where you mean that A gets X and B gets Y.
- But how can the 21% figure be parceled out individually to each factor?
- In 1937, cottages expropriated to make way for the airport were floated across to Algonquin Island, and after WWII, the remainder of Algonquin was parcelled out to vets and their families to deal with a housing shortage.
- In New York, families of fire-fighters and other victims argue over how vast compensation packages are parcelled out.
- The indicator was then parceled out to the progeny neurons as the injected cell underwent the cell divisions as the animal developed.
- It provides 85 percent of the state budget and is the basis of the state's optimistically named Permanent Fund, whose dividends are parceled out annually: Last fall, every man, woman and child in Alaska received a check for US $1,963.86.
- Wealth is still to be parceled out by the state in ways unrelated to production - according to social justice.
- Because the orders are likely to have been parcelled out among various brokers, it is difficult to assess the scope of China's problem.
- Obviously there are already many signs of this but do you think the future of the internet (and technology in general) will be parceled out to the highest bidder, like radio?
- It's a job-share the whole way, between consciousness and automaticity, with attention being parcelled out in a few large and many tiny chunks.
- And since the land is being parceled out piecemeal, each project will be a lurid, fenced-in recreation of First World living conditions in Third World surroundings.
Synonyms divide up, portion out, distribute, share out, allocate, allot, apportion, hand out, give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, dispense, split up, carve up
2Nautical
Wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas, before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing. 〔航海〕用涂油帆布条缠包（绳索）
PhrasesA children's game in which a parcel is passed around to the accompaniment of music, the child holding the parcel when the music stops being allowed to unwrap a layer. 传包裹（儿童游戏，听音乐传包裹，音乐停止时拿着包裹的儿童可打开一层包裹皮） Example sentencesExamples - ‘It was a case of pass the parcel,’ said the civil servant.
- Wilde's epigrams slip from character to character like a game of pass the parcel and significant moments flutter helplessly alongside the frivolous, until it all starts to sound the same.
- A game of pass the parcel developed, the loser being the diver holding the balloon when it popped.
- The result was that possession felt decidedly temporary, leading to a frenetic attempt to score in one phase with every use of the ball, which usually deteriorated into an unsightly version of pass the parcel.
- The children are excited about the party and there will be plenty of fun and games, including pass the parcel and a treasure hunt, and we will also be having a visit from Father Christmas.
- It is little wonder that we have this sort of chaos within the building industry when that is the sort of game of pass the parcel that this Labour Cabinet plays in its approach to building issues.
- About 30 youngsters had been dancing and playing games like pass the parcel and bingo when the gunman walked in.
- We bring in traditional games like pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey - but we relate them to the theme.
- After he has extracted himself from the room full of children, he is relieved to remove his hat and beard; he's feeling rather hot after the children's party games of pass the parcel and musical statues.
- So we spent the afternoon in isolation in our bedroom, dreaming of pass the parcel and Punch and Judy and paedophile alcoholic magicians pulling rabbits out of hats.
OriginLate Middle English (chiefly in the sense ‘small portion’): from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula ‘small part’. |