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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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mass
English
Etymology 1
In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun is derived from the verb ????? (máss?, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *ma?- (“to oil, knead”). Doublet of masa.The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæs/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
mass (countable and uncountable, plural masses)
- (physical) Matter, material.
- A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size
- (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
- (physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.
- (pharmacology) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
- (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
- (proscribed) Synonym of weight
- A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size
- A large quantity; a sum.
- Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
- The principal part; the main body.
- A large body of individuals, especially persons.
- (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.
- Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
(matter):
- weight
Translations
See also
- Customary units: slug, pound, ounce, long ton (1.12 short tons), short ton (commonly used)
- Metric units: gram (g), kilogram (kg), metric ton
Verb
mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)
- (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
- (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
Synonyms
- (to form into a mass): See also Thesaurus:assemble
- (to collect into a mass): See also Thesaurus:coalesce or Thesaurus:round up
- (to have a certain mass): weigh
Translations
Adjective
mass (not generally comparable, comparative masser, superlative massest)
- Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
- Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
Translations
Derived terms
- mass extinction
Etymology 2
From Middle English messe, masse, from Old English mæsse (“the mass, church festival”) and Old French messe, from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist, dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, noun use of feminine past participle of classical Latin mittere (“to send”), from ite, missa est (“go, (the assembly) is dismissed”), last words of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Compare Dutch mis (“mass”), German Messe (“mass”), Danish messe (“mass”), Swedish mässa (“mass; expo”), Icelandic messa (“mass”). More at mission.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
- (US) IPA(key): /mæs/
- (UK) IPA(key): /mæs/, /m??s/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
mass (plural masses)
- (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
- (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- massing priests
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Translations
Further reading
- mass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, SAMs, SMAs, SMSA, Sams, sams
Võro
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *maksa, from Proto-Uralic *mëksa.
Noun
mass (genitive massa, partitive massa)
- liver
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Estonian maks.
Noun
mass (genitive massu, partitive massu)
- tax, payment
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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