pair
IPA: pˈɛr
noun
- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (slang) A pair of breasts
- (slang) A pair of testicles
- (Australia, politics) 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.
- 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.
- (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
- (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.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate.
Examples of "pair" in Sentences
- They bought a pair of buskin.
- He is the most submissive of the pair.
- He was the more passionate of the pair.
- Another pair is simplicity and omniscience.
- Hyddwn is the offspring of the deer pairing.
- Bleiddwn is the offspring of the wolf pairing.
- How the Spurs got the pair is a pretty good story in itself.
- This pair is a James Agee and Walker Evans for the Radiohead era.
- Pairs had to match the color of the code with the lock and unlock it.
- Pairs had to match the colour of the code with the lock and unlock it.
- The pair of dots represents the lone electron pair on the nitrogen atom.
- A pair of goggles is coupled to the headphones and covers the eyes of the user.
- The horrid truth now flashed upon me -- each pair of sparkling points was a _pair of eyes_!
- The wave function which describes the pair is a complex valued function and has both amplitude and phase.
- The term pair t1; t2 represents t1 paired with t2 and is usually written as t1 t2; similarly, pair t1; pair t2; t3 is usually written as t1 t2 t3; and so on.
- The attitude of the pair is the attitude which has been expressed to us by our friend today, for whose most informative and delightful address, we all express our thanks.
- The balsa generally carries only one large sail, which is hoisted to what we call a pair of shears, formed by two poles crossing at the top, where they are lashed together.
- The main pair from the above novel cameo in the second, as Stirling provides an excellent update on the inhabited and livable solar system planetary romance, first Venus, then Mars.
- T2 second; pair (): first (T1 ()), second (T2 ()) {} pair (const T1& x, const T2& y): first (x), second (y) {} template pair (const pair& p): first (p. first), second (p. second) {}} 即map中，key是键值对的第一个元素且mapped value是第二个元素。 pair的定义可以在 pairstd:: make_pair (const T1& t1, const T2& t2) {return pair