English Dictionary: paralleling | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parallel \Par"al*lel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paralleled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paralleling}.] 1. 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. The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like. His life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice. --Shak. 3. To equal; to match; to correspond to. --Shak. 4. To produce or adduce as a parallel. [R.] --Locke. My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to it. --Shak. |