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Parcel Out

Definition: Parcel Out

Parcel Out

Verb

1. 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 Out

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Parcel Out

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translation: Parcel Out

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

   

Portuguese

  

dividir (apportion, break, deal, disintegrate, dismember, dispart, dissever, divide, divvy, intersect, lot, part, separate, sever, share, slice, sunder, whack). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

isparcelisati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

dela ut (deal out, deliver, dish out, give away, hand out, issue, parcel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Parcel Out

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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