Difference between Bundle and Parcel

What is the difference between Bundle and Parcel?

Bundle as a noun is a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. while Parcel as a noun is a package wrapped for shipment.

Bundle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres. A large amount, especially of money. An application bundle; a directory or file suffixed with .app and containing related resources such source code.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To tie or wrap together. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. To dress someone warmly. To dress warmly. To sell hardware and software as a single product. To hurry.

Example sentence: We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

Parcel

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wrap something up into the form of a package.To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A package wrapped for shipment.A division of land bought and sold as a unit.A group of birds.A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.

Example sentence: I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material.

We hope you now know whether to use Bundle or Parcel in your sentence.

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