Word Finder - pair

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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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• pair of spectacles
• spectacles

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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.

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To group into one or more sets of two.

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The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.

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To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.

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To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

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To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

Carmen made a ball out of a pair of socks.

You two make a fine pair, you know that?

I saw a pair on your car out there.

Bianca put on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt.

Molly smiled and the pair and dog left.

Slipping into a pair of tennis shoes, she headed for the kitchen.

She woke to bright sunlight shining through her window and jumped from the bed, tugging on a pair of shorts and a blouse.

They gave me a pair of her "wings," which I keep still.

We're a good pair.

You know that pair of women's gloves?

The female dealer was in her bra and a soaked pair of pants.

Dean wanted to question Edith further but she rose, with Effie following, her arm on Edith's elbow and the pair returned upstairs.

Bordeaux studied the dust through a pair of field glasses.

The drivingwheels are coupled to a pair of trailing wheels.

Associated with the lateral blood-vessels are the single pair of nephridia.

Fred finished his breakfast in a rush and hauled out the pair of his garage-sale skis.

The four sepals are arranged symmetrically, an outer median and an inner lateral pair.

The same arrangement is found in some other Polychaetes; for instance, in Sabellaria there is a single pair of large anterior nephridia, which open by a common pore, followed after an interval by large-funnelled and short nephridia.

The testes are more numerous than the ovaries, of which latter there are never more than one pair.

There should also be only a single coelom, or a pair of lateral coelomic cavities.

As the most developed pair in birds they are com monly, although wrongly, called the hyoid horns.

The head of an ant carries a pair of elbowed feelers, each consisting of a minute basal and an elongate second segment, forming the stalk or "scape," while from eight to eleven short segments make up the terminal "flagellum."

D, Optical section of a branch of organs are present to the number of a single pair per somite, and are commonly present in the majority of the segments of the body, failing often among the Oligochaeta in a varying number of the anterior segments.

Frequently reduced in number of pairs; rarely (Capitellidae) more than one pair per segment.

It is held, however, that these are a pair of parapodia which have shifted forwards.

The spermathecae are usually paired structures, one pair to each of the segments where they occur.

The intestine has a pair of caeca or two or three pairs (but all lie in one segment) in the genus Pheretima and in one species of Rhinodrilus.

In Benhamia caecifera and at least one other earthworm there are numerous caeca, one pair to each segment.

The nervous system is embedded in the epidermis, and the pairs of ganglia are separated as in Serpula, &c.; each pair has a longish commissure between its two ganglia.

There are no setae and apparently only two pairs of nephridia, of which the anterior pair open commonly by a common pore on the third segment after the head, whose segments have not been accurately enumerated.

The intervening segments contain the genitalia, which are on the Oligochaeta plan in that the gonads are independent of their ducts and that there are special spermathecae, one pair.

The male ducts are either one pair or two pairs, which open by a common and complicated efferent terminal apparatus furnished with a protrusible penis.

In Pontobdella and Branchellion the nephridia form a network extending from segment to segment, but there is only one pair of funnels in each segment.

An interesting member of this constellation is a-Capricorni, a pair of stars of 3rd and 4th magnitudes, each of which has a companion of the 9th magnitude.

The head bears only one pair of tentacles.

Spengel has, however, in a most ingenious way shown that these bodies are the representatives of the typical pair of ctenidia, here reduced to a mere rudiment.

The head is seen in front resting on the foot and carrying a median non-retractile snout or rostrum, and a pair of cephalic tentacles at the base of each of which is an eye.

It carries two pairs of cephalic tentacles and a pair of sessile eyes.

Laterally the foot gives rise to a pair of mobile fleshy lobes, the parapodia (ep), which can be thrown up so as to cover in the dorsal surface of the animal.

Our figure of the nervous system of Aplysia does not give the small pair of buccal ganglia which are, as in all glossophorous Molluscs, present upon the nerves passing from the cerebral region to the odontophore.

They are all pelagic, the foot being entirely transformed into a pair of anterior fins; eyes are absent, and the nerve centres are concentrated on the ven tral side of the oesophagus.

Body elongated; visceral mass marked off from foot posteriorly; dorsal appendages absent, or reduced to a single pair; spicules in the integument.

Never more than one pair of tentacles, and these are absent in Alderia and some species of Limapontia.

Karl Semper has shown that these slugs have, in addition to the usual pair of cephalic eyes, a number of eyes developed upon the dorsal integument.

Pulmonata with two pairs of tentacles, except Janellidae and Vertigo; these tentacles are invaginable, and the eyes are borne on the summits of the posterior pair.

The god was probably son and mate of the goddess, and the divine pair represented the genius of Reproductive Fertility in its relations with humanity.

At the same time he enjoined the pair to marry and people the world.

The Sidra Rabbet knows of three total destructions of the human race by fire and water, pestilence and sword, a single pair alone surviving in each case.

The thorax is composed of three segments; each bears a pair of jointed legs, and in the vast majority of insects the two hindmost bear each a pair of wings.

As previously mentioned, a pair of minute jaws - the maxillulae- are present in the lowest order of insects, between the mandibles and the first maxillae.