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Definition: Parcelling |
ParcellingNoun1. The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parcelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Synonyms: ParcellingSynonyms: allocation (n), allotment (n), apportioning (n), apportionment (n), parceling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Parcelling |
| English words defined with "parcelling": parcel, portion ♦ share. (references) |
| "Parcelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Parcelling" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "parcelling": parcelling out. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parcelling | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "parcelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndarje (allotment, bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, detachment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fissure, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, severance, share out, sorting, spacing, split, splitting). (various references) | |
Chinese | 分成 部分 (Parceled, Parceling, Parcelled). (various references) | |
Danish | udstykning (agricultural consolidation, allotment, consolidation of fragmented holdings, conveyancing, conveyancing of part of atitle, creation of allotments, division of land, fragmentation of estates, land consolidation, parcellation, parcelling of sites, re-allocation of agricultural land holdings, re-allotment of land, regrouping of lands, reparcelation, reparcelling out of small holdings, splitting up of holdings, subdivision, transfer of ownership), opdeling i parceller (creation of allotments, division of land). (various references) | |
Dutch | verkaveling (allotment, creation of allotments, division of land, housing development, housing estate, subdivision). (various references) | |
Finnish | palstoitus (creation of allotments, division of land), palstoittaminen (creation of allotments, division of land). (various references) | |
French | parcellement, limande. (various references) | |
German | Parzellierung (creation of allotments, division of land, subdivision), Parzellenteilung (creation of allotments, division of land), Flurzersplitterung (creation of allotments, division of land). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάτμηση (creation of allotments, division of land, fragmentation, sectioning, segmentation, segmenting), οικοπεδοποίηση (allotment, creation of allotments, division of land, housing development, housing estate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | parcellázás (parceling, subdivision), részekre osztás (parceling). (various references) | |
Italian | parcellazione (creation of allotments, division of land, partition, subdivision), parcellamento (creation of allotments, division of land), benda (band, bandage, bandage dressing, binding, blindfold, linkage, linking, melton, molleton, patch). (various references) | |
Korean | 소포로 함 (Parceling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arcellingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parcelamento (creation of allotments, division of land, fragmentation of estates, splitting up of holdings, subdivision), repartição (allocation, apportionment, bureau, department, dispensation, distribution channel, division, parcenary, partition, service, sharing), loteamento (allotment, conveyancing of part of atitle, creation of allotments, division of land, housing development, housing estate, parcellation, parcelling of sites), divisão (allotment, boundary, compartment, cubicle division, dismiss, division, fissure, fraction, frontier, graduation, head, hedge, hyphen, litharge, melancholia, military division, milking space, milking stall, parceling, parting, partition, partitioning, scale, scission, section, separation, severance, sorting, split, stall), distribuição (allotment, apportionment, circulation, delivery, dispensation, distribution, division of powers, parceling, partition). (various references) | |
Russian | раздел (charter, division, parceling, partition, section). (various references) | |
Spanish | parcelación (allotment, conveyancing of part of atitle, creation of allotments, division of land, fragmentation of estates, parceling, parcellation, parcelling of sites, splitting up of holdings, stacking allotment, subdivision). (various references) | |
Swedish | avstyckning (creation of allotments, division of land, fragmentation of estates, parcelling out, splitting up of holdings). (various references) | |
Ukranian | роздроблення (parceling), поділ (break up, differentiation, divide, division, fission, lap, parceling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-l-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: cellaring, parceling, pellagrin, recalling, replacing. | |
-2 letters: allergic, allergin, calliper, capering, clearing, grapline, pearling, pillager, relacing. | |
-3 letters: aligner, anergic, angelic, anglice, caliper, calling, capelin, caprine, carline, carling, carping, celling, clanger, cleping, clinger, craping, creping, cringle, engrail, galenic, gallein, glacier, glancer, gracile, graplin, grapnel, langrel, leaping, nargile, pallier, palling, panicle, parling, peacing, pealing, pelagic, pelican, perilla, pillage, placing, plainer, praline, ralline, realign, reaping, reginal, replica. | |
-4 letters: aliner, alpine, angler, apneic, arcing, cagier, caller, caplin, caring, carlin, carnie, carpel, cellar, cering, clinal, cringe, earing, eclair, epical, gainer, gallic, garlic, genial, giller, glaire, glance, grille, incage, inlace, lacier, lacing, lancer, larine, lienal, linage, lineal, linear, linger, nailer, pacing, palier, paling, panier, parcel, paring, pencil, penial, pillar, pincer, pineal, pinger, placer, plaice, planer, plicae, plical, prance, prince, racing, rapine, raping, reagin, recall, regain, regina, regnal, renail, replan. | |
-5 letters: acing, agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, anile, aping, areic, argil, argle, ariel, arpen, cager, cairn, caner, caper, carle, carpi, cella, celli, ceria, cigar, clang, clean, clear, cline, cling, crane, crape, cripe, elain, erica, gaper, garni, genic, genip, glace, glair, glare, glean, glial, gnarl, grace, grail, grain, grape, grill, gripe, ileac, ileal, iller, ingle, lacer, lager, lance, lapel, lapin, large, learn, legal, liane, liang, ligan, liger, lilac, linac, liner, linga, nacre, naric, nicer, pacer, pager, paler, panel, panic, parge, parle, pearl, pecan, penal, peril, pical, pilar, pilea, place, plage, plain, plane, plena, plica, plier, prang, price, prill, rance, range, recap, regal, regna, reign, relic, renal, renig, repin, rille, ripen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-l-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: callipering. | |
+3 letters: panegyrically, phrenological, precancelling. | |
+4 letters: clapperclawing, electroplating, hypoallergenic. | |
+5 letters: epeirogenically, paragenetically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 63 65 6C 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. -.-. . .-.. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r c e l l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0063 0065 006C 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678469717878758073 |
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