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Definition: Parcel Out |
Parcel OutVerb1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Parcel OutSynonyms: administer (v), allot (v), deal (v), deal out (v), dish out (v), dispense (v), distribute (v), dole out (v), lot (v), mete out (v), shell out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve. |
Arrangement | Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "parcel out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndaj në pjesë (portion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرق (allot, apportion, be afraid, be scared, become afraid, deal out, difference, differentiate, diffuse, discrepancy, disperse, distinction, distribute, disunite, divide, give out, part, scatter, section, separate, strew about, variance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпределям (admeasure, allocate, allot, apportion, assort, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, map out, measure, part, plot, serve out, share out, slice, sort), разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), раздавам (administer, administrate, allot, apportion, deal out, dispense, distribute, give away, give out, hand about, hand out, measure, mete out, pass out), парцелирам (plot out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozdìlit (allot, apportion, carve up, deal out, disjoin, dismember, dispense, dissever, distribute, divide, divide out, divide up, give away, hand around, hand out, parcel, part, partition, portion, separate, share, split). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udstykke i parceller (to divide into lots, to parcel out), udstykke i jordlodder (to divide into lots, to parcel out), udstykke (to divide into lots, to parcel out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verkavelen (to divide into lots, to parcel out), kavelen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | parceligi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paloitella (cut up, divide up), jakaa (deal, deliver, distribute, divide, divide split, give away, portion out, separate, share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | partager (participate, partition off), lotir (to parcel out), distribuer (part, pay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | parzellieren (to divide into lots, to parcel out), aufteilen (apportion, break down, carve up, divide, divide out, divide up, divvy up, lay out, parcel, partition, share out, slice up, split, split up, to apportion, to split). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τεμαχίζω (carve, chop, cut up, dissect, fritter, sliver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feldarabol (disarticulate, dismember, log, scarf, spade, to block out, to chop up, to disjoint, to dislocate, to dismember, to flench, to flense, to morsel, to spade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dividere (break up, cut, divide, part, partition, Rive, separate, share, slice, split, spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 地割り (allot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じわり (allot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arcelpay outay dividir (apportion, break, deal, disintegrate, dismember, dispart, dissever, divide, divvy, intersect, lot, part, separate, sever, share, slice, sunder, whack). (various references) parcela, diviza (carve up, divide, graduate, partition, plot, plot out, separate, share, split), împãrţi (admeasure, allot, apportion, assign, branch, cast, comminute, deal, distribute, divide, dole, go snacks, impart, lay on, measure out, mete, mete out, partake of, partition, pass out, portion, retail, section, share, slice, split). (various references) выделять (accentuate, allot, detail, emphasize, evolve, excrete, extract, exude, give off, give out, highlight, isolate, liberate, mete, secrete, segregate, show favor, show favour). (various references) isparcelisati. (various references) repartir (allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, hand around, hand out, hand round, issue, measure out, part, pass out, share out). (various references) dela ut (deal out, deliver, dish out, give away, hand out, issue, parcel). (various references) parsellemek (divide up into plots, parcel, plot), hisselere ayırmak (allot, divide up, parcel), bölmek (break down, carve up, cleave, divide, divvy, divvy up, overslaugh, parcel, partition, portion, reduce, rend, section, segment, separate, sever, share, slice, split). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: peculator. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: copulate, opercula, outcaper, pectoral. | |
-2 letters: caltrop, capture, cloture, clouter, copulae, copular, coulter, coupler, couplet, locater, octuple, outleap, outpace, outrace, plectra, polecat, poulter, prolate, torulae. | |
-3 letters: acuter, apercu, caplet, capote, captor, carpel, carpet, cartel, cartop, claret, coaler, coater, colter, colure, copter, copula, coteau, couple, couter, croupe, culpae, cupola, curate, curtal, cutler, lector, locate, ocular. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: operculate, peculators, speculator. | |
+2 letters: counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, exculpatory, operculated, speculators. | |
+3 letters: counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, inoperculate, photonuclear, plutocracies, proconsulate, prosecutable. | |
+4 letters: claustrophobe, counterplayer, inoperculates, overspeculate, precopulatory, proconsulates, prosecutorial, reduplication, republication, unproblematic. | |
+5 letters: claustrophobes, computerizable, conceptualizer, counterexample, counterplayers, hepatocellular, nonspectacular, overparticular, overspeculated, overspeculates, percutaneously, pertinaciously, prepublication, recapitulation, reduplications, republications, ultracompetent, ultraprecision. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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