array vs parcel

array

noun
  • An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. 

  • A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. 

  • A militia. 

  • Clothing and ornamentation. 

  • A microarray. 

  • A group of hedgehogs. 

  • A collection laid out to be viewed in full. 

  • Common name for matrix. 

  • Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. 

  • A large collection. 

  • Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices. 

verb
  • To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal. 

  • To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time. 

  • To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire. 

parcel

noun
  • An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. 

  • An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels). 

  • A package wrapped for shipment. 

  • An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form. 

  • 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. 

  • A division of land bought and sold as a unit. 

verb
  • To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into. 

  • To wrap a strip around the end of a rope. 

  • To wrap something up into the form of a package. 

  • To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. 

How often have the words array and parcel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )