collection vs parcel

collection

noun
  • A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together. 

  • A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term. 

  • A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set. 

  • The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. 

  • The activity of collecting. 

  • Multiple related objects associated as a group. 

  • The quality of being collected; calm composure. 

  • A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations. 

  • Debt collection. 

parcel

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

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