par

• acme
• adequation
• alikeness
• apex
• average
• balance
• bar
• barometer
• benchmark
• case
• coequality
• commonplace
• community
• comparability
• compatibility
• coordinateness
• correlation
• correspondence
• criterion
• equal footing
• equality
• equatability
• equivalence
• equivalency
• example
• exchangeability
• exemplar
• gold standard
• golden mean
• grade
• identicalness
• identity
• instance
• interchangeability
• level
• likeness
• mark
• mean
• measure
• median
• meridian
• metric
• middle
• model
• norm
• normal
• ordinary
• parallelism
• parity
• peak
• pinnacle
• representative
• resemblance
• rule
• run
• sameness
• similarity
• similitude
• standard
• status quo
• summit
• touchstone
• usual
• yardstick
• zenith

• aberration
• abnormality
• anomaly
• deviation
• difference
• disagreement
• discrepancy
• disparateness
• disparity
• disproportion
• dissimilarity
• distinction
• distinctiveness
• distinctness
• divergence
• diverseness
• diversity
• exception
• extreme
• imbalance
• imparity
• incompatibility
• inequality
• nonequivalence
• rarity
• unlikeness

• noun
  1. A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
  2. A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
  3. An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
  4. A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
  5. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  6. A digression; the use of such digressions.
  7. Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
  8. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
  9. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
  10. An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
  11. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
  12. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
  13. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  14. Equality of condition or circumstances.
  15. (mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
  16. A hole in which a player achieves par.
  17. An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
  18. Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
  19. A young leveret.
• adjective
  1. Equally distant from one another at all points.
  2. Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
  3. (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
  4. Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
• preposition
  1. By; with.
• verb
  1. To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

• The golfer managed to complete the course with a score of par on every hole.
• The financial report indicated that the company's profits were on par with industry standards.
• It's important to set your expectations at par to avoid disappointment in any project.
• The chef believes that the quality of ingredients should be at least par to ensure a great dish.
• She felt that her performance in the competition was par, but she aimed to improve for next time.

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