Word Finder - pairs

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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.

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To impair, to make worse.

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To become worse, to deteriorate.

Multiple pairs of feet hurried down the hall and Connie was the first one through the door.

The maximum number of teeth is 36, there being typically two pairs of incisors and three of premolars in each jaw.

The tail is long and in some cases prehensile; the first hind-toe may be either large, small or absent; the dentition usually includes three pairs of upper and one of lower incisors, and six or seven pairs of cheekteeth in each jaw; the stomach is either simple or sadculated, without a cardiac gland; and there are four teats.

With the exception of the aberrant long-snouted phalanger, the members of the family Phalangeridae have the normal number of functional incisors, in addition to which there may be one or two rudimentary pairs in the lower jaw.

Here he seeks a female, pairs, and soon afterwards dies.

The conductors are then twisted in pairs with definite lays.

The gonads are borne on the manubrium, either forming a continuous ring (Codonid type), or four masses or pairs of masses (Oceanid type).

The tail is rudimentary, the first hind-toe opposable, the first pair of upper incisors very large, but the second and third either absent or small and placed partially behind the larger pair; and only five pairs of cheek-teeth in each jaw.

They consist of two rows of balls rolling in two pairs of V races or grooves.

In male beetles, however, the two pairs of genital processes (paramera) belonging to the ninth abdominal segment are always present, though sometimes reduced.

For example, the grub of a pea or bean beetle (Bruchus) is hatched, from the egg laid by its mother on the carpel of a leguminous flower, with three pairs of legs and spiny processes on the prothorax.

The larvae have the three pairs of legs well developed, and the hinder abdominal segments swollen.

Riley, who finds that the young larva, hatched from the egg laid on the pod, has three pairs of legs, and that these are lost after the moult that occurs when the grub has bored its way into the seed.

Every axle of an electric locomotive may thus be subjected to a torque, and the large weight which must be put on one pair of wheels in order to secure sufficient adhesion when all the driving is done from one axle may be distributed through as many pairs of wheels as desired.

The prevalent number of testes is one pair in the aquatic genera and two pairs in earthworms. But there are exceptions; thus a species of Lamprodrilus has four pairs of testes.

Associated with these glands are frequently to be found bundles or pairs of long and variously modified setae which are termed penial setae,to distinguish them from other setae sometimes but not always associated with rather similarglandswhich are found anteriorly to these, and often in the immediate neighbourhood of the spermathecae; the latter are spoken of as genital setae.

In many Geoscolicidae, however, and certain Lumbricidae and Perichaetidae, there are several, even a large number, of pairs of very small spermathecae to each of the segments which contain them.

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.

There are three pairs of spermathecae situated in segments III-V, a testis in V and an ovary in VI.

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

The three pairs of pigmented spots show the position of the eyes on the dorsal surface.

The testes vary in numbers of pairs.

In both 1715 and 1745 Dumfries remained apathetic. Prince Charles Edward indeed occupied the town, holding his court in a building afterwards known as the Commercial Hotel, levying £2000 tribute money and requisitioning 1000 pairs of shoes for his Highlanders, by way of punishing its contumacy.

Two pairs of salivary ducts, each leading from a salivary gland, open into the buccal chamber.

The head in most cases bears two pairs of tentacles.

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

Head bears two pairs of tentacles.

Body furnished with three pairs of lateral lobes, bearing the tegumentary papillae; foot very narrow; pelagic. Glaucus.

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 head of an insect carries usually four pairs of conspicuous appendages - feelers, mandibles and two pairs of maxillae, so that the presence of four primitive somites is immediately evident.

From these three pairs of thoracic legs comes the name - Hexapoda - which distinguishes the class.

Two pairs of wings are present in the vast majority of insects, borne respectively on the mesothorax and metathorax.

The legs, wings and other organs of the trunk receive their nerves from the thoracic and abdominal ganglia, and the fusion of several pairs of these ganglia may be regarded as corresponding to a centralization of individuality.

They are developed on the ventral surface of the body and are six in number, one pair arising from the eighth ventral plate and two pairs from the ninth.

The ganglia become greatly changed in position during the later life, and it is usually said that there are only ten pairs of abdominal ganglia even in the embryo.

In Orthoptera, Heymons has demonstrated the existence of eleven pairs, the terminal pair becoming, however, soon united with the tenth.

First maxillae also modified as piercers; maxillae of both pairs with distinct palps.

Both pairs of wings similar, narrow and fringed.

Of special interest are cockroachlike forms, with two pairs of similar membranous wings and a long ovipositor, and gigantic insects allied to the Odonata, that measured 2 ft.

The Corrodentia retain vestigial maxillulae and two pairs of Malpighian tubes, but the wings are somewhat specialized in the Copeognatha and absent in the degraded and parasitic Mallophaga.

It included all Picariae which had not " zygodactylous " feet, that is to say, toes placed in pairs, two before and two behind.

Two pairs of invaginations of B the skin, which originally are called the prostomial and metastomial disks, grow round the intestine, finally fuse together, and form the skin and mus- cular body-wall of the future Nemertine, which afterwards becomes ciliated, frees itself from the pilidium investment and develops into the adult worm without further metamorphosis.

Its integument is marked by a large number of transverse grooves simulating the segmentation of Annelids, and near the anterior extremity close to the mouth are two pairs of recurved chitinous hooks.

Again, the adult Pentastomum shows no trace of appendages, unless the two pairs of chitinous hooks are to be regarded as the vestiges of jaws or ambulatory limbs.

These larvae are minute oval creatures with a comparatively short apically fringed caudal prolongation and furnished with two pairs of short two-clawed processes, which may represent the limbs of anthropods and possibly the two pairs of legs found in Acari of the family Eriophyidae.

There are three pairs of cheek-teeth which are rooted, and show folds of enamel on the crown.

According to this theory a " chemical type " embraced compounds containing the same number of equivalents combined in a like manner and exhibiting similar properties; thus acetic and trichloracetic acids, aldehyde and chloral, marsh gas and chloroform are pairs of compounds referable to the same type.

A doubly linked pair of atoms is denoted by the sign A with the index corresponding to the side; if there are two pairs of double links, then indices corresponding to both sides are employed.