batch vs parcel

batch

noun
  • A bread roll. 

  • A graduating class; school class. 

  • The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. 

  • A set of data to be processed at one time. 

  • A bank; a sandbank. 

  • A quantity of anything produced at one operation. 

  • A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows. 

  • A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. 

verb
  • To aggregate things together into a batch. 

  • To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. 

  • To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process. 

adj
  • Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting. 

parcel

noun
  • A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry. 

  • 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 portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. 

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

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

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 batch and parcel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )