Pairname

• 1

  A surname.

pairnoun詞源 1/pɛə/

• 1

  Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

  • Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Every body sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
  • Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load.
• 2

  Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

  • [S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.
  • Must be good at athletics, home repairs, making mince interesting and finding the pair to the other glove.
• 3

  Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

  • Spouses should make a great pair.
• 4

  Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).

  • a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
• 5

  A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

  • A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
• 6

  card-gamesgamesA poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

• 7

  ball-gamescricketgamesA score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.

• 8

  informalball-gamesbaseballgamesA double play, two outs recorded in one play.

  • They turned a pair to end the fifth.

pairverb詞源 1/pɛə/

• 1

  To group into one or more sets of two.

  • The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
  • Brown as I am, an Ethiopian dame / Inspired young Perseus with a gen’rous flame; / Turtles and doves of diff’ring hues unite, / And glossy jet is paired with shining white.
• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsto link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.

  • It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.
  • If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
• 3

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

• 4

  To come together for mating.

  • The raven, in short, when he pairs, which he does at the earliest moment permitted by the laws of ravendom, pairs for life […]
• 5

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

• 6

  To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

  • My Heart was made to fit and pair with thine, / Simple and plain, and fraught with artleſs Tenderneſs; / Form’d to receive one Love, and only one, / But pleas’d and proud, and dearly fond of that, / It knows not what there can be in Variety, / And would not if it could.

pairverb詞源 2/pɛə/

• 1

  obsoleteTo impair, to make worse.

  • Why dreghis þou þis dole, & deris þi seluyn? / Lefe of þis Langore, as my lefe brother, / Þat puttes þe to payne and peires þi sight.
  • It were good therefore, that Men in their Innouations, would follow the Example of Time it ſelfe ; which indeed Innouateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, ſcarce to be perceiued : For otherwiſe, whatſoeuer is New, is vnlooked for ; And euer it mends Some, and paires Other […]
• 2

  obsoleteTo become worse, to deteriorate.