"Parallelogram" is a word in ENGLISH
A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite
sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in
popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer
than it is broad, and with right angles.
He did touch people's lives, the lives of strangers, in an entirely unanticipated way. It was they who really mourned him - or what they thought was him - with a grief that was no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces his altitude and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.""You must work in Technical Support," says the balloonist."I do," replies the man. "How did you know?""Well" says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but completely useless."The man below says: "You must be in management.""I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?""Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're still in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an …
Read the complete definitionA plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines.
Read the complete definitionAn equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, …
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