Opposite vs Parallel - What's the difference?
opposite | parallel |
Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
Facing in the other direction.
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
* Dryden
* John Locke
Something opposite or contrary to another.
An opponent.
An antonym.
(mathematics) An additive inverse.
In an opposite position.
Facing, or across from.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
In a complementary role to.
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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
As adjectives the difference between opposite and parallel
is that opposite is located directly across from something else, or from each other while parallel is equally distant from one another at all points.As nouns the difference between opposite and parallel
is that opposite is something opposite or contrary to another while parallel is one of a set of parallel lines.As adverbs the difference between opposite and parallel
is that opposite is in an opposite position while parallel is with a parallel relationship.As a preposition opposite
is facing, or across from.As a verb parallel is
to construct or place something parallel to something else.opposite
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Adjective
(-)- She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
- They were moving in opposite directions.
- He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
- Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.
Derived terms
* opposite sexNoun
(en noun)- "Up" is the opposite of "down".
Derived terms
* opposites attractAdverb
(-)- I was on my seat and she stood opposite .
Preposition
(English prepositions)See also
* appositeStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----parallel
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(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)