Dictionary Entry
parallel
parallel is a 8-letter English word with 24 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
- 2adjective
Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
- 3adjective
Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
- 4noun
A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
- 5noun
Direction conformable to that of another line,
- 6noun
Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
- 7noun
A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
- 8noun
Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
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.
- 12transitive verb
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.
- 13transitive verb
Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
- 14transitive verb
To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- 15transitive verb
To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- 16intransitive verb
To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
- 17noun
something having the property of being analogous to something else
- 18noun
an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
Synonyms
- 19noun
(mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
"parallels never meet"
- 20verb
make or place parallel to something
"They paralleled the ditch to the highway"
Synonyms
- 21verb
be parallel to
"Their roles are paralleled by ours"
- 22verb
duplicate or match
"The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"
- 23adjective
being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
"parallel lines never converge"
"concentric circles are parallel"
- 24adjective
of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
"parallel processing"
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