parallel
verb/ˈpærəlel/
/ˈpærəlel/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they parallel | /ˈpærəlel/ /ˈpærəlel/ |
| he / she / it parallels | /ˈpærəlelz/ /ˈpærəlelz/ |
| past simple paralleled | /ˈpærəleld/ /ˈpærəleld/ |
| past participle paralleled | /ˈpærəleld/ /ˈpærəleld/ |
| -ing form paralleling | /ˈpærəlelɪŋ/ /ˈpærəlelɪŋ/ |
- parallel something to be similar to something; to happen at the same time as something
- Their legal system parallels our own.
- The rise in unemployment is paralleled by an increase in petty crime.
- parallel something to be as good as something synonym equal
- a level of achievement that has never been paralleled
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French parallèle, via Latin from Greek parallēlos, from para- ‘alongside’ + allēlos ‘one another’.
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