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{
"term": "parallel",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/li/lines.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "two or more lines that are parallel to each other are the same distance apart at every point",
"sensetop": "parallel to/with something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "parallel lines"
},
{
"text": "The road and the canal are parallel to each other.",
"contextForm": "parallel to/with something"
},
{
"text": "The lane is roughly parallel to the main road."
},
{
"text": "The road runs parallel with the coast."
}
],
"topics": ["Colours and Shapes", "Maths and measurement"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "run"],
"adverb": ["exactly", "almost", "nearly"],
"preposition": ["to", "with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "very similar or taking place at the same time",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "parallel trends"
},
{
"text": "Though still a committed painter, in 1978 she launched a parallel career as a photographer."
},
{
"text": "Two poisonings have been reported recently in London and now there has been a parallel case in the Netherlands."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "involving several computer operations at the same time",
"labels": "(computing)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "parallel processing"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpærəlel/",
"audio": "pa/parallel/parallel__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpærəlel/",
"audio": "pa/parallel/parallel__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French parallèle, via Latin from Greek parallēlos, from para- ‘alongside’ + allēlos ‘one another’."
}