close parallel

collocation in English

meaningsofcloseandparallel

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close
adjective
uk
/kləʊs/us
/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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parallel
noun
uk
/ˈpær.ə.lel/us
/ˈper.ə.lel/
something very similar to something else, or a similarity between ...
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(Definition ofcloseandparallelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofclose parallel

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There is acloseparallelhere with the issue of hunting, another target of the animal rights movement.
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There is acloseparallelthere between the two operations.
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I fully recognise that in the respect which he has mentioned, and in others, there is nocloseparallelbetween the two.
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If anyone thinks that there is acloseparallelbetween the fire service and the police, they should think again.
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In thecloseparalleloption, their potential effects can restrict operations to the dependent segregated mode (resulting in reduced movement capacity).
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This is acloseparallelto the good advice often given to programmers to declare their variables in as small a scope as possible.
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There is acloseparallelbetween changes in the hazard for the genders, at least up to the mid-40s.
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An eosinophil showedcloseparallelcontact with the agar, while an adjacent neutrophil was in much less intimate contact.
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An eosinophil (eo) has made verycloseparallelcontact with the agar surface over a wide area, while an adjacent neutrophil (n) is only loosely attached by broad pseudopodia.
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The pattern of verb complementation examined above has acloseparallelin the syntax of adjectives, which can similarly require their complements to be inflected in a specific case.
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Eosinophils made verycloseparallelcontact with the agar surface over large areas, while the neutrophils were only attached by broad pseudopodia separated by considerable gaps.
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There is a particularlycloseparallelbetween the role of words in traditional accounts of morphological systems and the role of constructions in traditional analyses of syntax.
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I do not think that there is acloseparallelhere.
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It seems to me to be a fairlycloseparallel.
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That seems a horriblycloseparallelto the situation that we are going into now.
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It appears to me to be acloseparallelwith what takes place in the case of the ordinary industrial company.
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If we get rid of that, we are obviously confronted with a fairlycloseparallel.
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I think there is a verycloseparallelbetween the two things, the manufacture of new armaments and the evolution of air-raid precaution schemes.
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It runs in verycloseparallelto some of the proposals which we have brought forward.
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I do not accept that there is acloseparallelbetween the two cases cited.
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