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parallel

Definition

  • verb: to be similar or equal to (something)
  • verb: to indicate analogy of
  • adjective: very similar and often happening at the same time
  • adjective: extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant, and not meeting
  • usually used in negative statements
  • synonyms: like, similar, resemblance

Examples

  • The essay 'draws parallels between' the lives of the two presidents. [=describes ways in which the lives of the two presidents were similar]

  • This period of growth has 'no parallel' [=there has never been a similar period of growth] in the history of the region.

  • Nothing 'parallels' that experience. [=that experience is unlike any other experience; it is unique]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) that it's him 'Til chapter three Now it's no wonder That her name means "beauty" Her looks have got no parallel But behind that fair façade I'm afraid she's rather odd Very different from the rest of us She's nothing (..)
    2017 Beauty and the Beast