Clues for the word "PARALLEL"
We've had 50 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 79 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of parallel
- a. - Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
- 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.
- a. - Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.
- n. - A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
- n. - Direction conformable to that of another line,
- n. - Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
- n. - A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.
- n. - Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t. - Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
- v. t. - To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- v. t. - To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- v. i. - To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
Referring Clues
- Like railroad tracks
- Side by side
- Fated never to meet?
- Similar
- Aligned
- Line of latitude
- The 38th, for one
- Like some gymnastic bars
- Analogy
- One type of parking
- Lines that fail to meet
- Euclidean geometry's ___ postulate
- Like some lines
- Kind of parking
- Type of parking
- It's drawn between similar things
- Like train tracks
- Like lines that never cross
- ___ port
- Akin
- Counterpart
- How some main streets run
- Discipline shown by the whole island cutting fish
- Matching degree course
- Like to jump up without slowing down
- Meeting in such bars would be quite inappropriate
- Continuously equidistant
- Corresponding
- Never meeting
- As are lines of latitude
- Always the same distance apart
- Forever equidistant
- Not meeting the standard on whole railway
- Corresponding with friend, penning everything in red almost
- Fr Fitzgerald in 11 between sides that never meet
- Gym apparatus, ___ bars
- Corresponding but never meeting
- Line from Pearl Jam covers the lot
- Similar slowing in spring, reversed
- Reduce about everything by a line to show latitude
- English used in a few lines and a few more for comparison
- ___ bars
- Engineers admitting everyone in China destined never to meet
- Like some bars
- Like these line segments: //
- Analogous
- Gymnast's ___ bars
- ___ parking (driving test part)
- *Closely match
- Like lines that never meet
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 26, 2025
- Daily American - December 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 10, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 26, 2024
- Daily American - December 06, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 06, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 23, 2023
- Your Life Choices - December 13, 2022
- Mirror Daily - July 21, 2022
- Daily American - December 06, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - November 25, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - October 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 05, 2017
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 10, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2017
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