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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

  • (..) to recommend official travel restrictions. It's a little bit unsettling. They're not physicists. They're not engineers. They think it's just gonna go away. They live in a fantasy parallel universe. Right on top of the man, beating him. The man is bleeding. Twenty-one confirmed cases. All the talk (..)
    2013 World War Z