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Definition pair
Etymology 1
From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of p?r.
Noun
pair (plural pairs or pair)
- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only)
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (slang) A pair of breasts
- (Australia, politics) 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.
- 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.
- (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
- (kinematics) 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.
Verb
pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
Etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle English pairen, peiren, shortened form of apeiren, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, empoirier, from Late Latin pei?r?.
Verb
pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)
- (obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate.
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