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parcel
English
Etymology
From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Vulgar Latin *particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pär?-s?l, IPA(key): /?p??s?l/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?p?a?.s??]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [?p???.s??]
- (General American) IPA(key): [?p???.s??]
- Rhymes: -??(r)s?l
- Hyphenation: par?cel
Noun
parcel (plural parcels)
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- Synonym: package
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- Synonym: plot
- (obsolete) A group of birds.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- […] this youthful parcel
- Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Part 2, Chapter 79,[3]
- […] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age […]
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- 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.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 4, p. 85,[4]
- The same Experiments succeed on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]
- 1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2,[5]
- The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 4, p. 85,[4]
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- lot
- allotment
Verb
parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)
- To wrap something up into the form of a package.
- To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.
- 1667, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, London: H. Herringman, Act I, Scene 2, p. 12,[7]
- Those ghostly Kings would parcel out my pow’r,
- And all the fatness of my Land devour;
- 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, pp. 94-95,[8]
- Then the great Hall was wholly broken down,
- And the broad woodland parcell’d into farms;
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[9]
- […] that mine own servant should
- Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
- Addition of his envy!
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[9]
Translations
Adverb
parcel (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,[10]
- Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]
- 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, or The Cavalier, Chapter 4,[11]
- […] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]
- 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, p. 59,[12]
- here was one [a hut] that, summer-blanch’d,
- Was parcel-bearded with the traveller’s-joy
- In Autumn, parcel ivy-clad;
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,[10]
Further reading
- parcel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- parcel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Placer, carpel, craple, placer
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French parcelle (“parcel”), from Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p???s?l?]
Noun
parcel c (singular definite parcellen, plural indefinite parceller)
- parcel, lot (subdivided piece of land registred independently in official records)
- (informal) detached house
- Synonym: parcelhus
Inflection
Portuguese
Noun
parcel m (plural parcéis)
- a shoal, a sandbank
- Synonyms: vau, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte
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heap
English
Etymology
From Middle English heep, from Old English h?ap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian ka?pas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan ????????????????? (kåfa)).
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /hi?p/
- ((Ireland), dated) enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /he?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
heap (plural heaps)
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- a heap of vassals and slaves
- 1876, Anthony Trollope, s:Doctor Thorne
- He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
- a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
- 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Will o' the Mill
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
- 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Hyponyms
- compost heap
Derived terms
- heapful
- heapmeal
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ipi
Translations
Verb
heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)
- (transitive) To pile in a heap.
- (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
News of that vanished Arabian,
A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
Synonyms
- (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- heaped (adj), heaping (adj)
- heap up
- overheap
Translations
Adverb
heap (not comparable)
- (offensive, representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans) Very.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
- We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
- 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)
- Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
Anagrams
- HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.
Cognate with Old Frisian h?p, Old Saxon h?p, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xæ???p/, [hæ???p]
Noun
h?ap m
- group
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
- heap
Declension
Derived terms
- h?apm?lum
Descendants
- Middle English: heep
- English: heap
Portuguese
Etymology
From English heap
Noun
heap m or f (in variation) (plural heaps)
- (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).
Noun
heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)
- heap, pile
- mass, gang, horde
Further reading
- “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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