Parallel
['pærəlel] or ['pærəlɛl]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
埃斯特拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
(a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
(a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
(n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
(n.) Direction conformable to that of another line,
(n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
(n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
(n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
(v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to.
(v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.
(v. i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
編輯:内尔达
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Equidistant throughout (as lines).[2]. In conformity, in harmony, in accordance.[3]. Like, similar, analogous, resembling, allied, of a piece.
n. [1]. Parallel line.[2]. Resemblance, similarity, likeness.[3]. Comparison.
手打:谢莉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Correspondent, congruous, correlative, analogous, concurrent, equidistant
ANT:Different, opposed, incongruous, irrelative, unanalogous, divergent,contrariant
阿奇校對
解釋/意思:
adj. side by side: (geom.) extended in the same direction and equi-distant in all parts: with the same direction or tendency: running in accordance with: resembling in all essential points: like or similar.—n. a line equi-distant from another at all points: a line drawn across a map or round a globe at right angles to the axis marking latitude: likeness: a comparison: counterpart: (pl.) trenches dug parallel to the outline of a besieged fortress to protect the besiegers (mil.).—v.t. to place so as to be parallel: to correspond or to make to correspond to:—pr.p. par′alleling or par′allelling; pa.p. par′alleled or par′allelled.—n. Par′allelism state of being parallel: resemblance: comparison: likeness of form or meaning as of two statements clauses or verses.—adj. Parallelis′tic of the nature of or involving parallelism.—adv. Par′allelly.—Parallel bars a pair of bars securely fixed 4 to 6 feet above the ground and about 1?feet apart used in gymnastics to strengthen the arms; Parallel forces forces which act in parallel lines having a single resultant readily found by the method of moments; Parallel motion a name given to any linkage by which circular motion may be changed into straight-line motion; Parallel rulers a mathematical instrument for drawing parallel lines.
整理:温弗雷德
例句/造句/用法:
- The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- What had happened to India was very parallel to what had happened to Germany. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Everywhere in Europe there was a parallel development. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Don't lambaste me with my own parallels-' Gerald pondered a while. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Some of the most deeply tragic and romantic, some of the most terrible incidents, have also their parallels in reality. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Seamen say the nautilus is only found in these waters between the 35th and 45th parallels of latitude. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Clayton heard the great body paralleling his course, and now there rose upon the evening air the beast's thunderous roar. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- 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. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The perplexity of medicine is paralleled by the perplexity of law; in which, again, Plato would have men follow the golden rule of simplicity. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The suddenness of an orphan's rise in the market was not to be paralleled by the maddest records of the Stock Exchange. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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