Side by side like two straight lines
Publish date: 2024-06-03
| • | Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. |
| • | Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with. |
| • | Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage. |
| • | A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc. |
| • | Direction conformable to that of another line, |
| • | Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity. |
| • | A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope. |
| • | Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart. |
| • | One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map. |
| • | One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress. |
| • | A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page. |
| • | To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else. |
| • | Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like. |
| • | To equal; to match; to correspond to. |
| • | To produce or adduce as a parallel. |
| • | To be parallel; to correspond; to be like. |
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