paralleling

Verb

parallel (third-person singular simple present parallels, present participle paralleling or parallelling[UK, nonstandard], simple past and past participle paralleled or parallelled[UK, nonstandard])

1. To construct or place something parallel to something else.
   • The needle […] doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
2. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
   • Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness
3. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
4. To compare or liken something to something else.
   • Although its spokesmen do not hesitate to parallel their oppression to that of blacks, the gay male community has chosen to ignore the voices of black gay men.1984 April 14, Reginald Shepherd, “White Men's Black Men”, in Gay Community News, page 11
5. To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
   • [H]is life is paralel’d / Euen with the ſtroke and line of his great Iuſtice: […]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
6. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
   • He will ſteale ſir an Egge out of a Cloiſter: for rapes and rauiſhments he paralels Neſſus.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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