parable

n 1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: {fable},

{allegory}, {apologue}]

2: (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey

his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"

PARADE

PARallel Applicative Database Engine. A project at Glasgow

University to construct a transaction-processor in the

parallel {functional programming} language {Haskell} to run on

an {ICL} {EDS:} database machine.