Synonyms of the word

parallel

• adj. Equally distant from one another at all points.
• adj. Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
• adj. (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
• adj. (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
• adv. With a parallel relationship.
• n. One of a set of parallel lines.
• n. Direction conformable to that of another line.
• n. A line of latitude.
• n. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
• n. Something identical or similar in essential respects.
• n. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
• n. (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force,…
• n. (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention…
• v. To construct or place something parallel to something else.
• v. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
• v. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
• v. To compare or liken something to something else.
• v. To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
• v. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
• v. To produce or adduce as a parallel.

agree

• v. (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become…
• v. (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange…
• v. (intransitive) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
• v. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
• v. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
• v. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

analog

• adj. (of a device or system) in which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly)…
• n. (countable) something that bears an analogy to something else.
• n. (countable, biology) an organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism…
• n. (chemistry) a structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element.

analogue

• adj. (Britain, Canada) Alternative form of analog.
• n. (Britain, Canada) Alternative form of analog.

antiparallel

• adj. (mathematics) of vectors, parallel but of opposite direction.
• adj. (biochemistry) describing the orientations of the two strands of DNA.
• adj. (biochemistry) describing two beta strands comprising a protein's secondary structure that are aligned…
• n. (geometry) A line that forms equal angles with two other lines, but in opposite directions.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

collateral

• adj. Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
• adj. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
• adj. Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
• adj. Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
• adj. Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
• adj. Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
• adj. Coming or directed along the side.
• adj. Acting in an indirect way.
• n. A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough…
• n. (now rare) A collateral (not linear) family member.
• n. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
• n. (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short…
• n. A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.

collimate

• v. To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam.

comparable

• adj. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).
• adj. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
• adj. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
• adj. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
• n. Something suitable for comparison.

correspond

• v. (intransitive, constructed with to) to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin,…
• v. (intransitive, constructed with with) to exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period…

duplicate

• adj. Being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage…
• adj. (games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other…
• v. to make a copy of.
• v. to do repeatedly; to do again.
• v. to produce something equal to.
• n. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
• n. (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars,…
• n. The game of duplicate bridge.
• n. The game of duplicate Scrabble.
• n. (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the…

fit

• adj. Suitable, proper.
• adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• adj. In good shape; physically well.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
• adj. Prepared; ready.
• v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
• v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
• v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
• v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
• v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
• v. (transitive) To make ready.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
• v. To be proper or becoming.
• v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
• n. The degree to which something fits.
• n. Conformity of elements one to another.
• n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
• n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
• n. A seizure or convulsion.
• n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
• n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

gibe

• n. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• v. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

jibe

• n. (nautical) A maneuver in which the stern of a sailing boat or ship crosses the wind, typically resulting…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To perform a jibe.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To cause to execute a jibe.
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• n. A facetious or insulting remark, a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks, jeer.
• v. (transitive) To mock, taunt.
• v. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

latitude

• n. (geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the…
• n. (geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's…
• n. The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
• n. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
• n. (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve…
• n. Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

nonconvergent

• adj. Not convergent.

nonintersecting

• adj. Not intersecting.

similarity

• n. Closeness of appearance to something else.
• n. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.

symmetric

• adj. Symmetrical.
• adj. (set theory) Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRy if and only if yRx for all members x and y of S…
• adj. (cryptography) Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.

symmetrical

• adj. Exhibiting symmetry; having harmonious or proportionate arrangement of parts; having corresponding parts…

synchronal

• adj. Synchronous; simultaneous.

synchronic

• adj. occurring at a specific point in time.
• adj. (linguistics) relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.

synchronous

• adj. At the same time, at the same frequency.
• adj. (computing, of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations,…

tally

• adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
• interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
• n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
• n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
• n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
• n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
• n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
• n. A tally shop.
• n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
• v. (transitive) To count something.
• v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
• v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
• v. (intransitive) To keep score.
• v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
• v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
• adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

twin

• n. Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who…
• n. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
• n. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
• n. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
• n. (crystallography) A twin crystal.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
• v. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different…
• v. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
• adj. double; dual; occurring as a matching pair.
• adj. forming a pair of twins.