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- Parallel - 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.
- Parallel - 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.
- Parallel - 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.
- Parallel - v. t. - Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
- Parallel - v. t. - To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- Parallel - v. t. - To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- Parallel - v. i. - To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
- Parallel - a. - Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
- Parallel - 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.
- Parallel - a. - Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
- Parallel - n. - A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
- Parallel - n. - Direction conformable to that of another line,
- Parallel - n. - Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
- Parallel - n. - A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
- Parallel - n. - Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
- Parallel - 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.
- Parallelable - a. - Capable of being paralleled, or equaled.
- Paralleled - imp. & p. p. - of Parallel
- Paralleling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Parallel
- Parallelism - n. - The quality or state of being parallel.
- Parallelism - n. - Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
- Parallelism - n. - Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.
- Parallelistic - a. - Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
- Parallelize - v. t. - To render parallel.
- Parallelless - a. - Matchless.
- Conoid - n. - A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.
- Perioecians - n. pl. - Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.
- Sandal - n. - An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.
- Lunette - n. - A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
- Slaty - a. - Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture.
- Tint - n. - A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- Squarrose - a. - Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
- Parallel - 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.
- Echelon - n. - An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
- Level - n. - A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
- Tubipora - n. - A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- Bond - n. - The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
- Gill - n. - One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- Grating - n. - A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.
- Bord - n. - The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
- Rimose - a. - Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.
- Counterguard - n. - A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
- Homoeomerous - a. - Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.
- Griff - n. - An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
- Gules - n. - The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.
- Grating - n. - A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating.
- Level - a. - Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.
- Zonate - a. - Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae.
- Hodograph - n. - A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
- Parallel - 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.
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- H3600 כִּיר - 3600 כִּיר - כִּיר - - kîyr - keer - a form for כּוּר (only in the dual); a cooking range (consisting of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set); ranges for pots. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4915 מֹשֶׁל - 4915 מֹשֶׁל - מֹשֶׁל - - môshel - mo'-shel - (1) from מָשַׁל; (2) from מָשַׁל; empire; a parallel; dominion, like. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7298 רַהַט - 7298 רַהַט - רַהַט - - rahaṭ - rah'-hat - from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out; a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines); gallery, gutter, trough. - Noun Masculine - heb