Meaning of pair | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
2. A surname.
3. A surname
4. One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
5. to make into a pair. She was paired with my brother in the tennis match. saamvoeg يُرَتِّبُ زَوْجا образувам двойка emparelhar spárovat paarweise ordnen sætte sammen med ζευγαρώνω formar pareja con; emparejar paari(meheks) panema جفت کردن olla parina faire la paire לְזַווֵג जोड़ा बनाना, या लगाना združiti (se)u par párosít memasang para abbinare, appaiare 組む 쌍을 이루다 suporuoti salikt pārī dipasangkan een paar doen vormen ordne parvis; pare zestawiać pary جفت کول emparelhar a face/a forma o perec...
6. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
7. par, pareja.
8. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
9. Two corresponding persons or items, similar in form or function and matched or associated: a pair of shoes.
10. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
11. One object composed of two joined, similar parts that are dependent upon each other: a pair of pliers.
12. A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
13. Two persons who are married, engaged, or dating.
14. A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
15. Games Two playing cards of the same denomination.
    Games
16. A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
    informal
17. Two members of a deliberative body with opposing opinions on a given issue who agree to abstain from voting on the issue, thereby offsetting each other.
18. A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
    informal
19. Chemistry An electron pair.
    Chemistry
20. A boat for two sweep rowers.
21. To arrange in sets of two; couple: The golfers are paired in twosomes for this round of play.
22. A pair of breasts.
    slang
23. To combine or join (one person or thing) with another to form a pair: a director pairing his favorite actor with an unknown; a salad that is paired with a fine dressing.
24. A pair of testicles.
    slang
25. The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
    Australia
26. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
27. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
    archaic
28. In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.

Equivalents

Examples

“Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Every body sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.”

“Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load.”

“So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.”

“Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.”

“I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.”

“[S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.”

“Must be good at athletics, home repairs, making mince interesting and finding the pair to the other glove.”

“Spouses should make a great pair.”

“a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans”

“A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.”

“They turned a pair to end the fifth.”

“The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.”

“She's got a gorgeous pair.”

“Grow a pair, mate.”

“There were two pairs on the final vote.”

“One-line business is optional; three-line business compulsory; when it's two lines you have to be on parade unless you have secured a 'pair' and cleared it with the 'pairing whip'.”

“Thou lieſt; I ha’ nothing buy my ſkin, / And my cloaths; my ſword here, and my ſelf; / Two Crowns in my pocket; two pair of Cards; / And three falſe Dice: I can ſwim like a fiſh / Raſcal, nothing to hinder me.”

“It would never do, you know, for me to be plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs, and all that sort of thing.”

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