Parallel

(noun.) (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes); 'parallels never meet'.

(verb.) make or place parallel to something; 'They paralleled the ditch to the highway'.

(verb.) be parallel to; 'Their roles are paralleled by ours'.

(adj.) being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; 'parallel lines never converge'; 'concentric circles are parallel'; 'dancers in two parallel rows' .

(adj.) of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; 'parallel processing' .

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• The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• What had happened to India was very parallel to what had happened to Germany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Although the cotton is now a white, soft, clean, downy sheet, still the fibres cross each other in every direction, and they require to be straightened and laid parallel before the spinning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The motor was located in the front part of the locomotive, on its side, with the armature shaft across the frames, or parallel with the driving axles. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Everywhere in Europe there was a parallel development. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Don't lambaste me with my own parallels-' Gerald pondered a while. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Some of the most deeply tragic and romantic, some of the most terrible incidents, have also their parallels in reality. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Seamen say the nautilus is only found in these waters between the 35th and 45th parallels of latitude. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Clayton heard the great body paralleling his course, and now there rose upon the evening air the beast's thunderous roar. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The perplexity of medicine is paralleled by the perplexity of law; in which, again, Plato would have men follow the golden rule of simplicity. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The suddenness of an orphan's rise in the market was not to be paralleled by the maddest records of the Stock Exchange. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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