Split vs. Parcel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Split and Parcel
Definitions
Split➦
To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain
Split the log down the middle.
Parcel➦
An object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post
A brown paper parcel
A parcel bomb
The lorry was carrying a large number of Royal Mail parcels
Split➦
Divided.
Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
Parcel➦
A quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction
A parcel of shares
Split➦
Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
Parcel➦
Make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it
He parcelled up the goods and sent them back
Split➦
(of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
Parcel➦
Wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas, before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing.
Split➦
Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
Parcel➦
Something wrapped up or packaged; a package.
Split➦
Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
Parcel➦
A plot of land, usually a division of a larger area.
Split➦
(London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Parcel➦
A quantity of merchandise offered for sale.
Split➦
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
Parcel➦
A group or company; a pack
"this youthful parcel of noble bachelors" (Shakespeare).
Split➦
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
Parcel➦
To divide into parts and distribute
Parceled out the land to their three children.
Split➦
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
Parcel➦
To make into a parcel; package.
Split➦
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
Parcel➦
(Nautical) To wind protective strips of canvas around (rope).
Split➦
A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
Parcel➦
A package wrapped for shipment.
I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
Split➦
(bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
Bro split
Parcel➦
An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
Split➦
A split-finger fastball.
He’s got a nasty split.
Parcel➦
An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
Split➦
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
Parcel➦
A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
Split➦
A split shot or split stroke.
Parcel➦
(obsolete) A group of birds.
Split➦
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
Parcel➦
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
Split➦
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to 20 (US) gallon, which is 2 of a fifth.
Parcel➦
A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
Split➦
A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
Parcel➦
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Split➦
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
Parcel➦
To wrap something up into the form of a package.
Split➦
(video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
Parcel➦
To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
Split➦
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
Parcel➦
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
Split➦
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
Parcel➦
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
Split➦
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
Parcel➦
(obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
Split➦
To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
He has split his lip.
Parcel➦
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
Two parcels of the white of an egg.
The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.
Split➦
To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
Parcel➦
A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Split➦
(transitive) To share; to divide.
We split the money among three people.
Parcel➦
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
This youthful parcelOf noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
Split➦
To leave.
Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
Parcel➦
A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage.
Split➦
To separate.
Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
Parcel➦
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; - often with out or into.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
The broad woodland parceled into farms.
Split➦
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
Parcel➦
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
That mine own servant shouldParcel the sum of my disgraces byAddition of his envy.
Split➦
To factor into linear factors.
Parcel➦
To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
Split➦
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
Parcel➦
Part or half; in part; partially.
The worthy dame was parcel-blind.
One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded].
Split➦
(intransitive) To burst out laughing.
Parcel➦
A wrapped container
Split➦
To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
Parcel➦
The result of parcelling out or sharing;
Death gets more than its share of attention from theologicans
Split➦
For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.
Parcel➦
An extended area of land
Split➦
To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
Parcel➦
A collection of things wrapped or boxed together
Split➦
To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain or layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
Cold winter split the rocks in twain.
Parcel➦
Divide into parts;
The developers parceled the land
Split➦
To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water.
Parcel➦
Cover with strips of canvas;
Parcel rope
Split➦
To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
Parcel➦
Make into a wrapped container
Split➦
To divide or separate into components; - often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
Split➦
To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
Split➦
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
The ship splits on the rock.
Split➦
To separate into parties or factions.
Split➦
To burst with laughter.
Each had a gravity would make you split.
Split➦
To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
Split➦
To divide one hand of blackjack into two hands; - a strategy allowed to a player when the first two cards dealt to the player have the same value.
Split➦
To leave; to depart (from a place or gathering); as, let's split.
Split➦
A crack, rent, or longitudinal fissure.
Split➦
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
Split➦
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
Split➦
One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
Split➦
A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
Split➦
Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; - usually in pl.
Split➦
Short for Split shot or split stroke.
Split➦
The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind.
Split➦
A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; - so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass.
Split➦
The substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as, a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
Split➦
Divided; cleft.
Split➦
Divided deeply; cleft.
Split➦
Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; - said of an order, sale, etc.
Split➦
Extending the legs at right angles to the trunks (one in front and the other in back)
Split➦
A bottle containing half the usual amount
Split➦
A promised or claimed share of loot or money;
He demanded his split before they disbanded
Split➦
A lengthwise crack in wood;
He inserted the wedge into a split in the log
Split➦
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
There was a rip in his pants
She had snags in her stockings
Split➦
An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea
Split➦
A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
Split➦
(tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl;
He was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame
Split➦
An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity;
They announced a two-for-one split of the common stock
Split➦
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
He gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Split➦
Division of a group into opposing factions;
Another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy
Split➦
Separate into parts or portions;
Divide the cake into three equal parts
The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
Split➦
Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument;
Cleave the bone
Split➦
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
The business partners broke over a tax question
The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
My friend and I split up
Split➦
Go one's own away; move apart;
The friends separated after the party
Split➦
Break open or apart suddenly;
The bubble burst
Split➦
Being divided or separated;
Split between love and hate
Split➦
Having been divided; having the unity destroyed;
Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces
A league of disunited nations
A fragmented coalition
A split group
Split➦
Broken or burst apart longitudinally;
After the thunderstorm we found a tree with a split trunk
They tore big juicy chunks from the heart of the split watermelon
Split➦
Having a long rip or tear;
A split lip
Split➦
(especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain;
We bought split logs for the fireplace