{
    "term": "parallel",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/li/lines.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "two or more lines that are parallel to each other are the same distance apart at every point",
            "sensetop": "parallel to/with something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "parallel lines"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The road and the canal are parallel to each other.",
                    "contextForm": "parallel to/with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lane is roughly parallel to the main road."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The road runs parallel with the coast."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Colours and Shapes", "Maths and measurement"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "run"],
                "adverb": ["exactly", "almost", "nearly"],
                "preposition": ["to", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "very similar or taking place at the same time",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "parallel trends"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Though still a committed painter, in 1978 she launched a parallel career as a photographer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two poisonings have been reported recently in London and now there has been a parallel case in the Netherlands."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "involving several computer operations at the same time",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "parallel processing"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpærəlel/",
                "audio": "pa/parallel/parallel__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpærəlel/",
                "audio": "pa/parallel/parallel__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French parallèle, via Latin from Greek parallēlos, from para- ‘alongside’ + allēlos ‘one another’."
}