Parallel sides are sides that (in a plane) do not meet whereas sides which are not parallel do meet at some point at an angle greater than 0°.
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If you extend the parallel sides they will never meet, no matter how long you make them. If you do that with non-parallel sides, the two lines will eventually meet.
It has exactly one pair of parallel sides.
Its parallel sides are of different lengths. Its angles are not all the same.
A trapezoid has only one pair of parallel sides. These parallel sides are opposite and are of different lengths.
The parallel sides of a trapezoid are of different lengths.
A trapezoid has only a pair of parallel sides of different lengths