[
US
/ˈpɛɹ/
]
[ UK /pˈeə/ ]
[ UK /pˈeə/ ]
VERB
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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 -
form a pair or pairs
The two old friends paired off - occur in pairs
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engage in sexual intercourse
Birds mate in the Spring -
arrange in pairs
Pair these numbers
NOUN
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- two items of the same kind
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
How To Use pair In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-fathers 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.
