Analog
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: in which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuously variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial)
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something that bears an analogy to something else an organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin a structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element
Example sentence: No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
Parallel
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of two or more (straight) lines, (flat) surfaces etc: Equally distant from one another at all points.parallel to: Of one thing, relative to another: Equally distant from at all points.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: With a parallel relationship
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One of a set of parallel lines.A line of latitude.An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To construct something parallel to something else.Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.To compare or liken something to something else.
Example sentence: The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?