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Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
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I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.
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Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
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Spouses should make a great pair.
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Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
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a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
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A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
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A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
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A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
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A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
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A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
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They turned a pair to end the fifth.
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A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
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The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
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A boat for two sweep rowers.
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A pair of breasts
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She's got a gorgeous pair.
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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.
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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.
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There were two pairs on the final vote.
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A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
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(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.