pair
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EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of pār.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pair (plural pairs or pair)
- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Charles Dickens, The Private Theatricals (in Sketches by Boz)
- Everybody sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
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2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- 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.
- Charles Dickens, The Private Theatricals (in Sketches by Boz)
- Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
- Spouses should make a great pair.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)
- a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
- (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
- They turned a pair to end the fifth.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
- (slang) A pair of breasts
- She's got a gorgeous pair.
- (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.
- There were two pairs on the final vote.
- (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
- Charles Dickens
- plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
- Charles Dickens
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
- two objects in a group: duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet
- (pair of breasts): See also Wikisaurus:breasts
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from pair (noun, etym. 1)
TranslationsEdit
two similar or identical things
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two people in relationship
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used with binary nouns
couple of working animals attached to work together
poker hand
cricket score
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baseball: two outs recorded in one play — see double play
baseball: doubleheader — see doubleheader
exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote
two members of opposite parties who mutually agree not to vote on a given question
number of things resembling one another, or belonging together — see set
kinematics: two elements, which permit only certain kind of relative motion
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VerbEdit
pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)
- (transitive) To group into sets of two.
- Alexander Pope
- Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
- The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
- Alexander Pope
- (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.
- Rowe
- My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
- Rowe
- (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
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2015 September 27, Microsoft, “How-to: Keyboards”, in http://www.microsoft.com[1], retrieved 2015-02-21:
- If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
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TranslationsEdit
to group into sets of two
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)
- (obsolete) To impair.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
VerbEdit
pair (first-person singular present paeixo, past participle paït)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of pair (third conjugation with -eix- infix)
| infinitive | pair | ||||||
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| present participle | paint | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | paït | païda | |||||
| plural | païts | païdes | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès |
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| present | paeixo | paeixes | paeix | païm | païu | paeixen | |
| imperfect | païa | païes | païa | paíem | paíeu | païen | |
| future | pairé | pairàs | pairà | pairem | paireu | pairan | |
| preterite | paí | païres | paí | paírem | paíreu | païren | |
| conditional | pairia | pairies | pairia | pairíem | pairíeu | pairien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès |
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| present | paeixi | paeixis | paeixi | païm | païu | paeixin | |
| imperfect | país | païssis | país | paíssim | paíssiu | païssin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| — | paeix | paeixi | païm | païu | paeixin | ||
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PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pair m (feminine singular paire, masculine plural pairs, feminine plural paires)
- (of a number) even
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NounEdit
pair m (plural pairs)
AntonymsEdit
- pari m
AnagramsEdit
External linksEdit
- “pair” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).