different between plumb vs parallel

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?m, IPA^(key): /pl?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: plum

Etymology 1

From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

Adjective

plumb (comparative more plumb, superlative most plumb)

1. Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
2. (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.

Synonyms

• (truly vertical): perpendicular

Translations

Adverb

plumb (not comparable)

1. In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Plumb down he drops.

2. (informal) Squarely, directly; completely.

   It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.

   Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.

Translations

Noun

plumb (plural plumbs)

1. A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
2. (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
3. The perpendicular direction or position.

Synonyms

• (construction): plummet, plumb bob (UK), plumb line (US)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plumb (third-person singular simple present plumbs, present participle plumbing, simple past and past participle plumbed)

1. To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
2. To attach to a water supply and drain.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
4. To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
5. To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
6. (dated) To seal something with lead.
7. (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
8. (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
9. (US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
10. (nautical) To position vertically above or below.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

plumb (plural plumbs)

1. Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”).
   • 1767, Select Essays on Husbandry

     Without attending to sub-divisions, all the pears are of one species, as well as all the apples, plumbs, peaches, cherries, lemons, citrons, oranges […]

Albanian

Alternative forms

• plum (Gheg)

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin plumbum (“lead”).

Noun

plumb m (definite singular plumbi)

1. lead (metal)
2. bullet

Declension

References

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin plumbum (“lead”).

Noun

plumb n (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)

2. lead (chemical element)

Declension

Derived terms

• plumburiu
• plumbui
• plumbos

Related terms

• plumbar

Noun

plumb m (plural plumbi)

1. bullet, projectile

Declension

Synonyms

• glon?

Noun

plumb n (plural plumburi)

1. (dated, chiefly Moldavia) pencil

Declension

Synonyms

• creion

English

Etymology

From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?r'?-l?l", IPA^(key): /?pæ???l?l/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) enPR: per'?-l?l", IPA^(key): /?p????l?l/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Adjective

parallel (not comparable)

1. Equally distant from one another at all points.
   • 1911, William Robert Martin, s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Navigation

     the instrument held with its plane roughly parallel to the equinoctial or celestial equato

2. Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".

   • When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.

3. (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.

   Antonyms: perpendicular, skew

4. (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

   Antonyms: serial, sequential

   Coordinate term: concurrent

Derived terms

• embarrassingly parallel
• parallelize

Translations

Adverb

parallel (comparative more parallel, superlative most parallel)

1. With a parallel relationship.

   The road runs parallel to the canal.

Related terms

• parallelly

Translations

Noun

parallel (plural parallels)

1. One of a set of parallel lines.
2. Direction conformable to that of another line.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     lines that from their parallel decline

3. A line of latitude.

   The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.

4. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
5. Something identical or similar in essential respects.
6. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.

   Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope

7. (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.
8. (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.

Antonyms

• perpendicular, skew (?)

Translations

Verb

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

1. To construct or place something parallel to something else.
2. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     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.
3. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
4. To compare or liken something to something else.
5. To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
6. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
7. To produce or adduce as a parallel.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.iv:

     Who cannot parallel these stories out of his experience?

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• sequential

References

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin parall?lus from Ancient Greek side-by-side, from ???? (pará, “by”) +? ???????? (all?lois, “each other”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p????l?l?]

Adjective

parallel (neuter parallelt, plural and definite singular attributive parallelle)

1. (geometry) parallel (equally distant at all points)
2. parallel (equivalent)

Noun

parallel c (singular definite parallellen, plural indefinite paralleller)

1. parallel (a similar case)
2. parallel (comparison)
3. (geometry, rare) parallel (a parallel line)

Inflection

References

• “parallel,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “parallel,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

parallel (not comparable)

1. parallel

Inflection

Synonyms

• evenwijdig

German

Etymology

From Latin parall?lus, parall?los, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paráll?los).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?a?le?l/

Adjective

parallel (not comparable)

1. parallel

   Die Linien meines Schreibpapiers laufen exakt parallel.

   Die eine Bahnschiene verläuft auch in der Kurve stets parallel zur anderen.

2. Serving the same purpose, leading to the same result

   Die Autobahn verläuft parallel zur Eisenbahn aber in ganz unterschiedlichen Biegungen und Kurven.

   Die Eheleute hatten nichts verabredet, so haben sie parallel (zueinander) eingekauft.

Declension

Antonyms

• gekreuzt, schief, windschief

Related terms

• Parallele
• Parallelenparalaxe
• parallelisieren
• Parallelklasse
• Parallelogramm
• Parallelverschiebung

Further reading

• “parallel” in Duden online