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Meaning pair meaning

What does pair mean?
Definitions in simple English

pair

A pair is two things that go together. She has many pairs of shoes, but she only has one pair of pants. Those two make a lovely pair, don't they.

pair

If you pair two people or things, you put them together. Young women were often paired with older men. They paired up at the dance.

pair

a set of two similar things considered as a unit (= couple) two items of the same kind two people considered as a unit (= pair off) form a pair or pairs The two old friends paired off (= match, couple) bring two objects, ideas, or people together This fact is coupled to the other one Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man? The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project occur in pairs arrange in pairs Pair these numbers a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value (= mate) engage in sexual intercourse Birds mate in the Spring

Synonyms pair synonyms

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Topics pair topics

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  • What words indicate that there are two of something?

Conjugation pair conjugation

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pair · verb

Examples pair examples

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Simple sentences

I cut the paper with a pair of scissors.
Although I had twice taken a pair of pills, my headache did not go away.
I bought a pair of leather shoes.
I'm wearing a pair of new shoes.
I've bought a new pair of sunglasses.
I bought a pair of shoes.
Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.
There is a pair of scissors on the desk.
Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.
A pair of leather gloves is a must when you work with these machines.
I need a pair of scissors to cut this paper.
This pair of shoes doesn't fit me.
This pair of shoes is a size larger.
Whose is this pair of stockings?
This pair of trousers is just right for me.
I haven't bought a pair of shoes for six months; I deserve a new pair so I think I'll go buy them!
A pair of gloves was left in the taxi.
This pair of lovers were carrying on an ardent correspondence.
I found a pair of gloves under the chair.
A pair of canaries are her only friends.
I found nothing but a pair of scissors.
My new pair of shoes are made of leather.
I bought a pair of boots.
I must buy a pair of shoes.
I bought a pair of gloves.
I left my new pair of gloves in the library.

Movie subtitles

And just like Jesus, I'm growing a pair!
And you are the perfect height to pair with Phillip's friend, Daniel, who stopped growing after being a kid gymnast.
Oh, my gosh, Valencia, if you knew what went into having a pair of monsters like these, you would never think about getting them again.
Uh. Mr. J, you wouldn't happen to have a pair of binoculars, would you?
Nurse Crane needs fresh gas and air and an extra pair of hands at Mrs Antoine's.
But if we let her loose, Barbara will be coming down the aisle in a pair of curtains and a pelmet.
As in a pair of grooming scissors.
I distinctly recall seeing a pair of curved ones in your possession yesterday.
I'll buy you another pair.
Mr. Christopher denies ever owning a pair, and Mrs. Frizzel claims that she's buried hers.
Yesterday, you showed me a pair of scissors that were not unlike the ones used.
Did you procure a second pair to cover your tracks?
I dropped my pair somewhere in the arena and Roger was in desperate need of a little trim.
Would you like a pair of nail scissors for Christmas?
Would you wash a pair of socks for me?
Nothing but a pair of thieves.
Hey, I got pair of shoes.
But I gotta kill me a pair of skunks, back apiece on the road to Santa Fe.
Beautiful pair of shoulders.
Compared with them, we were a pair of sober sods.
Take a pair of rabbits who get stuck on each other and begin to woo, and pretty soon you find a million more rabbits who say I love you.
I haven't got a pair of pants to my name with a full set of buttons on them.
Oh, I wouldn't touch her with your best pair of rubber gloves!
And a pair of dark glasses?
Let me have a dressing gown and pyjamas and a pair of gloves.
My dear child, if you'd seen as many legs as I have. you'd get more excited about a pair of crutches.
Now to show you my heart's in the right place I'll give you my best pair of pyjamas.
What a pair of legs!
Alright. We know the murder weapon to be a curved pair of grooming scissors, and three of our suspects have been unable to produce theirs.
They're the best pair in the army!
That's a marvellous pair of boots.
I could use a couple of dresses and a pair of silk stockings right now.
Pair of fives.

News and current affairs

Policymakers should pair fiscal measures to ameliorate the jobs and investment deficits now with a multi-year plan to reduce the long-run fiscal deficit gradually.
In 1952, Alan Turing--best known for his work on computation and the mind--proposed a mathematical model consisting of a pair of equations describing the reaction and diffusion of two imaginary chemicals.
On the one hand, there's the safe pair of hands personified by Jean-Claude Juncker, the veteran prime minister of tiny Luxembourg, who knows the ins and outs of the EU's political machinery and chairs the euro zone's ministerial set-up.
An enduring memory from my own recent visit to its capital Chisinau is the election poster of a local politician called Lupu, who holds a pair of spectacles to his eyes, whether to suggest visions or wisdom isn't clear.
At the same time, Bernanke is inheriting a pair of economic vulnerabilities that are unusual by historical standards, and that did not precede the Great Depression of the 1930's.
There, Betsey has a pair of, um, endowments that mean that she's better at inputs.
Others have protested that the film shows Indians as conniving, unprincipled, and ruthless, and that the only compassionate people in the film are a pair of white tourists who give the protagonist some money.
Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti is a safe pair of hands for the country's fiscal policy, yet the government has been unable to revive economic growth.
It is an almost pagan sacrifice: in the farm's backyard the animal is held down by a pair of strong men, the pig squealing as much as it can.
Whichever man wins will face Bolivia's seemingly intractable pair of ills: social-exclusion and poverty.
It is hard to see why I am less entitled to privacy because I am turned on by a Nazi uniform than I would be if I were excited by a pair of knickers.
If guided by the spirit of multilateralism, the Franco-German pair pulls Europe together.
Genetically modified mice either lack a specific gene or gene-pair (knock-out mice) or carry a piece of foreign DNA integrated into their own chromosomes (transgenic mice), and are used to deduce the functions of particular genes.
The basic discovery of BCS was that if the electrons pair up, those couples could indeed superconduct.
How can one pair electrons without ions holding them together, thereby enabling higher-temperature superconductors?
In the case of Argentina, a pair of massive IMF loans in 2000 and 2001 ultimately only delayed the inevitable harsh adjustment, and made the country's ultimate default even more traumatic.
It wants to pair the PPP with the discredited PML-Q and isolate the PML-N.
Indonesia recently witnessed a pair of dramatic releases: one a radical Muslim cleric from prison, the other a saucy men's magazine from its editors.
Instead, almost miraculously, we got an absolutely first-rate economist, a safe pair of hands to guide the global economy.
In terms of countries, the obvious new pair comprises the US, the world's largest debtor, and China, its greatest saver.
More importantly, with the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was no longer available as an Indian ally, and the US began to assess India and Pakistan in terms of separate interests, rather than as a pair linked in a South Asia balance of power.
It is an almost pagan sacrifice: in the farm's backyard the animal is held down by a pair of strong men, the pig squealing as much as it can. Suddenly, a third man cuts the pig's throat, a fountain of blood sprinkling everyone.

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