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UK
/pˈeəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈpɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
the casual couplings of adolescents - the act of grouping things or people in pairs
How To Use pairing In A Sentence
- The cost of repairing the fabric of the church was very high.
- They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at ￡1 million.
- Some of the most popular pairings pitted contrasting advantages and disadvantages against one another.
- The outer door needs repairing.
- Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies.
- I decided to go for simplicity, and made compote, in the oven, pairing the rhubarb with some raspberries I had in the freezer.
- Repairing this damage would require at least a decade of relative quiescence, which is nowhere in sight. Michael T. Klare: The Blowback Effect: 2020
- The tape has the advantages of heat resistance, insulation and heat shrink, becoming ideal insulating binding materials for manufacturing and repairing of electrical machinery, transformer and so on.
- The adventure had a final despairing twist.
- As far as repairing a flat on the road, we haven't yet finalized how riders will be able to achieve this.