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parallelled

vb. (context British English) (en-past of: parallel)

WordNet
parallel
  1. v. be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"

  2. make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" [syn: collimate]

  3. duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, duplicate]

  4. [also: parallelling, parallelled]

parallel
  1. n. something having the property of being analogous to something else [syn: analogue, analog]

  2. an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator [syn: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude]

  3. [also: parallelling, parallelled]

parallel
  1. adj. being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows" [ant: perpendicular, oblique]

  2. of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; "parallel processing"

  3. [also: parallelling, parallelled]

parallelled

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Usage examples of "parallelled".

They passed through two streets--named, appropriately, Second Street and Third Street--that immediately parallelled the bay.

They passed through two streets—named, appropriately, Second Street and Third Street—that immediately parallelled the bay.

He shook off the irritating odor and dragged himself to within a foot of the fire-scarred metal, discovering that the tunnel curved and parallelled the hull for another ten feet, ending finally at an open hatch.

The land masses and the dried-up seas that so closely parallelled those on Earth were still visible—but something new was happening!

Garion and Silk, bent low to the tall grass, parallelled their course, but remained some distance away.