Akin vs Parallel - What's the difference?
akin | parallel | Synonyms |
(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
* 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
* 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
* 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
Equally distant from one another at all points.
* Hakluyt
Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
* Addison
(hyperbolic geometry) said of a pair of lines:'' that they either do not intersect or they coincide
(computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time
One of a set of parallel lines.
* Alexander Pope
Direction conformable to that of another line.
* Garth
A line of latitude.
An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
Something identical or similar in essential respects.
* Alexander Pope
A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
(military) 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.
(printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
To construct or place something parallel to something else.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
To compare or liken something to something else.
To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
* Shakespeare
To equal; to match; to correspond to.
To produce or adduce as a parallel.
* Shakespeare
Akin is a synonym of parallel.
As adjectives the difference between akin and parallel
is that akin is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood while parallel is equally distant from one another at all points.As an adverb parallel is
with a parallel relationship.As a noun parallel is
one of a set of parallel lines.As a verb parallel is
to construct or place something parallel to something else.akin
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
- Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
Usage notes
* This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.Anagrams
* * * ----parallel
English
(wikipedia parallel)Adjective
(-)- The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel .
- revolutions parallel to the equinoctial
- The railway line runs parallel to the road.
- The two railway lines are parallel .
- When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
Jos Leys — ''The hyperbolic chamber(paragraph 8)
- a parallel algorithm
Antonyms
* perpendicular, skew, serialNoun
(en noun)- Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
- lines that from their parallel decline
- The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
- None but thyself can be thy parallel .
- Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
Antonyms
* perpendicular, skew (?)Verb
- The needle doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.
- His life is parallelled / Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
- (Shakespeare)
- My young remembrance cannot parallel / A fellow to it.
- (John Locke)