They are both 4 sided quadrilaterals and have interior angles that add up to 360 degrees but a rectangle has 2 pairs of parallel sides whereas a trapezoid only has 1 pair of parallel sides of different lengths.
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A rectangle must have two (2) pairs of parallel sides, a trapezoid only needs one (1). A rectangle is a quadrilateral with 4 right angles, and a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with 1 pair of opposite parallel sides.
Trapezoid is like a rectangle but the two sides are slanted inwards so that the top is shorter than the bottom
A rectangle has four right angles. A trapezoid can have at most two.
All the angles of a rectangle are right angle. This is not necessarily true of a parallelogram. There are many other differences that arise from this difference.
a cylinder has round tops