pair

IPA: pˈɛr

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.

(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

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.
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