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PARALLEL LINES

Specialty Definition: PARALLEL LINES

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Mining

Lines that lie in the same plane and are equally distant from each other at all points. The term is ordinarily applied to straight lines. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Parallel Lines

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Parallel Lines is a seminal New Wave album by the art punk band Blondie, released in September of 1978 (see 1978 in music). The album was one of Blondie's most popular and their most well-reviewed LP, and was a smash success in the United Kingdom. It was certified platinum by the R.I.A.A. in June 1979 (1979 in music).

Parallel Lines peaked at #6 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.

Track listing

  1. Hanging on the Telephone (Lee) - 2:17
  2. One Way or Another (Harrison/Harry) - 3:31
  3. Picture This (Destri/Harry/Stein) - 2:53
  4. Fade Away and Radiate (Stein) - 3:57
  5. Pretty Baby (Harry/Stein) - 3:16
  6. I Know But I Don't Know (Infante) - 3:53
  7. 11:59 (Destri) - 3:19
  8. Will Anything Happen (Lee) - 2:55
  9. Sunday Girl (Stein) - 3:01
  10. Heart of Glass (Harry/Stein) - 3:45
  11. Gonna Love You Too (Mauldin/Petty/Sullivan) - 2:03
  12. Just Go Away (Harry) - 3:21

Personnel

Charting singles

Billboard Music Charts (North America)
1979	Heart of Glass	        Club Play Singles	        No. 58
1979	Heart of Glass	        Pop Singles	                No. 1
1979	One Way or Another	Pop Singles	                No. 24

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parallel Lines."

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Crosswords: PARALLEL LINES

English words defined with "PARALLEL LINES": alignment, AntiparallelsbeamCorrugated iron, coupleDiagonal scaleelectron beam, Exterior anglehyperbolic geometryinterior angleLineatedOblique projectionParallel rodraySection linerT square, Tint tool, T-squareVanishing point, Vert. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PARALLEL LINES": Algebraic identityBegging the Question, boresight error, broadside shootingcheck crossed generally, check crossed specially, checkerboarded, cheque crossed generally, cheque crossed specially, Contour linesEUCLIDlaid linessquare-meshed nettingtramlinesWalk Chalks. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PARALLEL LINES

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Books

  • Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (reference)

  • Straight Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: PARALLEL LINES

Illustrations:
PARALLEL LINES

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Photo Album: PARALLEL LINES

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Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Gait training with the use of mirrors and marked foot-prints and parallel lines painted in the floor. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"A view of the running fight of 3 hours & 40 m. between the U. S. fleet under command of Comdr. Isaac Chauncey, and the British fleet of a superior force commanded by Sir James L. Yeo, on Lake Ontario, the 11th of September 1813". Color-tinted drawing by Masters Mate Peter W. Spicer, who served on board USS Sylph during this action. Ships depicted are listed in Photo # NH 75734-KN -- complete caption. The fleets are in two parallel lines, with the American fleet above. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: PARALLEL LINES

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Two narrow tables, at the sides of each of which were two wooden benches, extended along the refectory in parallel lines from one end to the other.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: PARALLEL LINES

Language Translations for "PARALLEL LINES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kvadreret papir (broad rule made up of close parallel lines, square ruled paper, squared paper). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geruit papier (broad rule made up of close parallel lines, square ruled paper, squared paper). (various references)

   

French

  

filet azuré (broad rule made up of close parallel lines). (various references)

   

German

  

Assurélinie (broad rule made up of close parallel lines). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

párhuzamos vonalak. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蛇腹 (camera bellows, ceiling molding, cornice, design of parallel lines). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じゃばら (bellows, ceiling molding, cornice, design of parallel lines). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arallelpay ineslay

   

Portuguese

  

filete azurado (broad rule made up of close parallel lines). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

azuré (broad rule made up of close parallel lines). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: PARALLEL LINES

Misspellings

"PARALLEL LINES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parrallel lines. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PARALLEL LINES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-l-l-l-n-p-r-s"

-3 letters: sailplaner.

-4 letters: airplanes, parallels, sailplane.

-5 letters: airplane, alieners, espalier, naperies, parallel, penalise, perillas, perineal, pilsener, pralines, repanels, seaplane, sepaline, spelaean, spinelle, splenial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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