[ US /ˈpɛɹ/ ]
[ UK /pˈe‍ə/ ]
VERB
  1. bring two objects, ideas, or people together
    The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
    Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
    This fact is coupled to the other one
  2. form a pair or pairs
    The two old friends paired off
  3. occur in pairs
  4. engage in sexual intercourse
    Birds mate in the Spring
  5. arrange in pairs
    Pair these numbers
NOUN
  1. two people considered as a unit
  2. a set of two similar things considered as a unit
  3. two items of the same kind
  4. a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
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How To Use pair In A Sentence

  • It's impossible to look at yourself in a pair of new frames and not see another character. Times, Sunday Times
  • Davis looked up and gave a signal of approval, and after a quick bow, the pair of messengers was gone.
  • A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.
  • Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
  • I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
  • It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
  • Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
  • A repair job is bad enough; but an investment in managerial ego is worse. MANAGING FOR RESULTS
  • they moaned in despair and dismay
  • The cost of repairing the fabric of the church was very high.
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