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Definition: Pair |
PairNoun1. A set of two similar things considered as a unit. 2. Two items of the same kind. 3. Two people considered as a unit. 4. A poker hand with 2 cards of the same value. Verb1. Form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off". 2. Bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project". 3. Make love; "Birds mate in the Spring". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Pair \Pair\, noun. [French paire, Late Latin paria, Latin paria, plural of par pair, from par, adj., equal. Compare to Apparel, Parequality, Peeran equal.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A party of co-workers; a gang. Also spelled pare. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Two conductors, insulated from each other, and associated to form part of a communication channel or channels. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In radio navigation, a pair of stations of a chain, usually a master and a slave station. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Pair, Couple, Brace. After numerals, the singular form of such words as these is generally employed; as, five pair of gloves, eight couple of dancers, three brace of pigeons, five dozen of eggs, four score years, twenty sail of ships, fifty head of cattle, six hundred of these men, two thousand of these cattle, etc. After such indefinite adjectives as few, many, several, some of the above words take the plural form; as, several hundreds, many thousands. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Readers note: If your web browser does not display the card suit symbols below, see the section below.A poker hand such as 4♥ 4♠ K♠ 10♦ 5♠, which contains two cards of the same rank, plus three unmatched cards. Ranks above any No pair hand, but below all other poker hands.
Between two such hands, the hand with the higher ranking pair wins. If two hands have the same rank of pair, the remaining cards in each hand (called Kickerss or side cards) are compared in the manner as no-pair hands.
Examples:
In some games, kickers become very important (typically Community card games like Texas holdem), while in other games (such as Draw poker) they are almost never significant. Nonetheless, they are always used if needed.
- 10♣ 10♠ 6♠ 4♥ 2♥ ("pair of tens") defeats 9♥ 9♣ A♥ Q♦ 10♦ ("pair of nines")
- 10♥ 10♦ J♦ 3♥ 2♣ ("tens with jack kicker") defeats 10♣ 10♠ 6♠ 4♥ 2♥
- 2♦ 2♥ 8♠ 5♣ 4♣ ("pair of deuces, eight-five-four") defeats 2♣ 2♠ 8♣ 5♥ 3♥ ("deuces, eight-five-three")
Readers note: This section uses the letters c, d, h, and s to indicate card suits.
- See also : Poker
A poker hand such as 4h 4s Ks 10d 5s, which contains two cards of the same rank, plus three unmatched cards. Ranks above any No pair hand, but below all other poker hands.
Between two such hands, the hand with the higher ranking pair wins. If two hands have the same rank of pair, the remaining cards in each hand (called Kickerss or side cards) are compared in the manner as no-pair hands.
Examples:
- 10c 10s 6s 4h 2h ("pair of tens") defeats 9h 9c Ah Qd 10d ("pair of nines")
- 10h 10d Jd 3h 2c ("tens with jack kicker") defeats 10c 10s 6s 4h 2h
- 2d 2h 8s 5c 4c ("pair of deuces, eight-five-four") defeats 2c 2s 8c 5h 3h ("deuces, eight-five-three")
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "One pair (poker)."
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Pair production is a physical process which occurs when two high-energy photons collide and produce a particle and an antiparticle. Electrons and positrons are frequently produced by this process because the light weight of the electron allows relatively low-energy gamma rays to create particle pairs.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pair production."
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simple:TwoTwo (2) is the natural number following one and preceding three.
Two has many properties in mathematics:
x+x = 2·x
- An integer is called even if it is divisible by 2.
- Two is the smallest and the first prime number, and the only even one. The next prime is three.
- Two is also a highly composite number, even though it is prime rather than composite. The next highly composite number is four.
- 2 is a factor of 10, so fractions with 2 in the denominator do not yield infinite decimal expansions, as is the case with most primes.
- Two is the base of the simplest numeral system in which natural numbers can be written concisely, the binary system widely used in computers.
- For any number x:
x·x = x2 In names of translation software, infix 2 often represents the word "to" with the connotation "translate to", as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string (integer to string) and texi2roff (Texinfo to troff).
- The smallest field has two elements.
- In the set-theoretical construction of the natural numbers, 2 is identified with the set {0,1}. This latter set is important in category theory: it is a subobject classifier in the category of sets.
Many human cultures have given the concept of two-ness symbolic meanings:
Two is a good number in Chinese culture. There is a Chinese saying "good things come in pairs". It is common to use double symbols in product brandnames, e.g. double happiness, double coin, double elephants etc. Cantonese people like the number two because it sounds the same as the word "easy" (易) in Cantonese.
- Two candles are lit on Finnish Independence Day. Putting them on the windowsill invokes the symbolical meaning of division, and thus independence.
- The yin-yang symbol in Chinese culture
- Two, or deuce, is the lowest number in a deck of cards (if you are playing with the ace high).
- The process of antithesis in Hegelian dialectic creates two-ness from one-ness
- In the philosophy of Pythagoras, the dyad is the second thing created (see the article monad for more on this)
- See dualism for a discussion of several other kinds of two-ness
Two is also:
Other usages include:
- the number of musicians in a duet.
The section about '2' in the meaning of 'to' contains material from FOLDOC's article on Two, used with permission.
- Letter of the two sorries
- One country, two systems
See also: zero, one, two, three, four, integer, list of numbers.
This article is about the number. For the year, see 2. For some fictional characters, see Number Two.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Two."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PAIR | English | Product Analysis Incident Report | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PairSynonyms: brace (n), couple (n), couplet (n), distich (n), doubleton (n), duad (n), duet (n), duo (n), dyad (n), span (n), twain (n), twosome (n), yoke (n), copulate (v), match (v), mate (v), pair off (v), partner off (v), twin (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Verb: pair, couple, bracket, yoke; conduplicate; mate, span. |
Noun: duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span. | |
Amusement | Pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere; |
Avoidance | Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject. |
Difference | Different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other. |
Love | Flirt, coquette; amorette; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone. |
Marriage | Verb: marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon. |
Feme, feme coverte; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife. | |
Mean | Verb: split the difference; take the average; Noun: reduce to a mean; Noun: strike a balance, pair off. |
Number | Sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple; fraction, rational number; surd, irrational number; transcendental number; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair; reciprocal; totient. |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
Similarity | Analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then what a pair we could make, but what if it's a lesson I don't care to learn (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Have you ever had two people look at you, with complete lust and devotion, through the same pair of eyes (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) That and a pair of testicles (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) My heart is falling down around my ankles like a wet pair of pants (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Did you put a pair in the pink box (What Women Want; writing credit: Josh Goldsmith; Cathy Yuspa) | |
Lyrics | And a tight pair of chinos (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair ("You're So Vain"; performing artist: Carly Simon) Together match, yo we a perfect pair (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon) A pair of 45's made me open my eyes (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies) At least two pair (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Clever | Christianity is not a crutch. It's a pair of wings. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974) The Best Pair of Legs in the Business (1972) Au Pair Girls (1972) A Pair of Greenbacks (1969) The Incredible Pair of Skis (1967) | |
Song Titles | Opposites Attract (performing artist: Paula Abdul featuring The Wild Pair) | |
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 | This is a series of photos showing the drug suramin's ability to protect helper t-cells (in culture) against HIV-I infection (HTLV-III) b). On the left side of each pair are uninfected helper t-cells. On the right, the top row are t-cells killed by the HIV-I; the middle t-cells partially protected with suramin; and the bottom t-cells completely protected by suramin against the HIV-I infection. Note the t-cells, when protected by suramin, are not destroyed. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Shown are the hands of a technician performing a test. Visible are the test tubes she is working on and a pair of scissors, which she uses in her work. She is performing some basic research concerning breast cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | If there is a pair of tufts near the base of the siphon, and a ventral row of tufts, or a row of straight hairs following the pecten, the genus is identified as Culiseta. Credit: CDC. |  | If only one pair of siphonal tufts, or hairs is present, the specimen is classified as a member of one of three possible genre, Aedes, Uranotaenia or Psorophora. Credit: CDC. |
 | A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope ... Credit: NASA. |  | This artist's illustration shows three steps in the merger of a pair white dwarf stars. The ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Stereo pair of images of Amalthea. Credit: NASA. |  | Pair of piano wire sounding machines on the PATTERSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Class B pair of horseshoe crabs. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Mating pair of horseshoe crabs. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "A pair of tulips" by Kevin Blomqvist Commentary: "A couple of tulips." | "Pair of electric powerline Tow" by Tyniuz C. Commentary: "Pair of Powerlines towers." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | A single man resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. |
Sydney Smith | Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. |
Thomas Carlyle | No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. |
Tori Amos | I'd like to think that my work has multidimensionality. That I can change a pair of shoes in the middle of the song and it's OK. That there is no structure that says I have to wear the same pair all the way through. As long as I've got feet, it's all right. |
William Shakespeare | A pair of star-cross'd lovers. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And the pair moved on. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | I'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy, insisted Zaphod, rising himself up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Two wheels make a pair. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | 1 Pair Buskins |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Uncle John fingered a pair of canvas gloves with yellow leather palms, tried them on and took them off and laid them down |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | I bought a pair of boots--galoshes really. (references) | |
Usually, people receive one chromosome in each pair from each parent. (references) | ||
This pair has two X chromosomes in females and one X and one Y chromosome in males. (references) | ||
Business | CSX is also actively investing in the construction of a new deep-water port for Shanghai on a pair of islands situated some thirty kilometers off the coast. (references) | |
In the case of a set, i.e., a suit or a pair of shoes, labels should be sewn in each piece of the set. This resolution also indicates what documents require approval by the Secretariat before products can be removed from Customs. (references) | ||
An example of a maximum duty is $30/kilo for silk ties. The 35 percent maximum tariff rate is being followed in the textile industry, except for example concerning sports shoes where $7 is added per pair under certain quotas and outside these limits, the price is doubled. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Germany | The ruling remained under appeal by the State Labor Office at year's end, and the au pair agency continued operations. (references) |
Germany | In a well-publicized court case in January 1999, a higher social court in Rheinland-Pfalz ruled that a Scientologist was allowed to run her au pair agency, for which the State Labor Ministry had refused to renew her license in 1994 because of her membership in the Church of Scientology. (references) | |
Economic History | Syria | STE has also announced several tenders including a tender for the modernization of the Syrian public switched data network, VHF radio paging system, GIS, WLL (Wireless Local Loop) and DPS (Digital Pair gain System). (references) |
Human Rights | India | The pair allegedly were detained by the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir police. (references) |
Trade | Israel | The project must be conducted by a pair of companies, one from each country. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | According to one NGO, girls are recruited at clubs and modeling agencies, or through the Internet, want-ads, mail-order bride schemes, and maid and au pair services. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. 'Twas a pair of boots that the lady bought, And the salesman laced them tight To a very remarkable height -- Higher, indeed, than I think he ought -- Higher than can be right. For the Bible declares -- but never mind: It is hardly fit To censure freely and fault to find With others for sins that I'm not inclined Myself to commit. Each has his weakness, and though my own Is freedom from every sin, It still were unfair to pitch in, Discharging the first censorious stone. Besides, the truth compels me to say, The boots in question were made that way. As he drew the lace she made a grimace, And blushingly said to him: "This boot, I'm sure, is too high to endure, It hurts my -- hurts my -- limb." The salesman smiled in a manner mild, Like an artless, undesigning child; Then, checking himself, to his face he gave A look as sorrowful as the grave, Though he didn't care two figs For her paints and throes, As he stroked her toes, Remarking with speech and manner just Befitting his calling: "Madam, I trust That it doesn't hurt your twigs." B. Percival Dike |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Baby Jesus needs a new pair of shoes! |
Julie Andrews | Used to have to go into either the subway or I used to have to go out in our garden with a pair of binoculars. Because I could tell the difference between the hum of a rocket and a real airplane. |
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| "Pair" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 99.59% of the time. "Pair" is used about 6,051 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 99.59% | 6,026 | 1,627 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.35% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.07% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,051 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pair" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pair | Last name | 1,000 | 11,481 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "pair": a fine pair of oxen ♦ a pair of ♦ A pair of bellows ♦ a pair of braces ♦ a pair of compasses ♦ a pair of dividers ♦ a pair of drawers ♦ a pair of eyeglasses ♦ a pair of friends ♦ a pair of pincers ♦ a pair of scales ♦ a pair of scissors ♦ a pair of spectacles ♦ a pair of stairs ♦ a pair of steps ♦ a pair of tongs ♦ a pair of trousers ♦ a pair of tweezers ♦ a pair of underpants ♦ another pair of shoes ♦ Astatic pair ♦ au pair ♦ au pair girl ♦ average energy expended in a gas per ion pair formed ♦ average energy expended per ion pair formed ♦ base pair ♦ Base Pair Mismatch ♦ carriage and pair ♦ city pair ♦ connector pair ♦ energy loss per ion pair ♦ find a pair ♦ form a pair ♦ happy pair ♦ higher pair ♦ kerning pair ♦ loaded symmetric pair ♦ loran pair ♦ lower pair ♦ married pair ♦ mean energy expended in a gas per ion pair formed ♦ notarising key pair ♦ notarizing key pair ♦ one of a pair ♦ Pair Bond ♦ pair compasses ♦ pair creation ♦ pair emission ♦ pair formation ♦ pair oar ♦ pair of bags ♦ pair of bellows ♦ pair of braces ♦ pair of breeches ♦ pair of compasses ♦ pair of crossed grooves ♦ pair of crossed oil grooves ♦ pair of dividers ♦ pair of eyeglasses ♦ pair of glasses ♦ pair of gloves ♦ pair of hedge shears ♦ pair of helical grooves ♦ pair of helical oil grooves ♦ pair of pants ♦ pair of pincers ♦ pair of pliers ♦ pair of pyjamas ♦ pair of rompers ♦ pair of scales ♦ pair of scissors ♦ pair of secateurs ♦ pair of shoes ♦ pair of spectacles ♦ pair of spiral grooves ♦ pair of spiral oil grooves ♦ pair of stairs ♦ pair of steps ♦ pair of sunglasses ♦ pair of suspenders ♦ pair of tongs ♦ pair of trousers ♦ pair of tweezers ♦ pair of virginals ♦ pair of wheels ♦ pair of wings ♦ pair off ♦ pair production ♦ pair royal ♦ pair up ♦ post and pair ♦ prime pair ♦ register pair ♦ Rembrandt and Lievens in Leiden,A pair of young and noble painters ♦ shielded twisted pair ♦ show a clean pair of heels ♦ sliding pair ♦ split pair ♦ stereo pair ♦ stereoscopic pair ♦ terminal pair. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pair": pair-bonded, pair-bonding, pair-bonds, pair-breaking, pair-formation, pair-horse, pair-plasma, pair-skating, pair-trawling, pair-wise. | |
Ending with "pair": au-pair, base-pair, twisted-pair, word-pair. | |
Containing "pair": Matched-Pair Analysis, Single-pair High Speed Digital Subscriber Line, two-pair front, wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
au pair | 1,388 | au great pair | 27 |
dirty pair | 270 | wild pair shoes store | 26 |
pair | 209 | pair trading | 25 |
dirty pair flash | 139 | dirty flash hentai pair | 24 |
au pair agency | 115 | agency au pair uk | 24 |
wild pair shoes | 100 | au pair london | 24 |
wild pair | 99 | twisted pair cable | 23 |
dirty pair hentai | 86 | au pair teenies | 22 |
au pair in america | 62 | ordered pair | 22 |
au pair job | 49 | anime dirty pair | 21 |
twisted pair | 45 | dirty nude pair | 20 |
dirty pair flash pic | 45 | nice pair | 19 |
au pair usa | 35 | au pair search | 18 |
dirty pair pic | 34 | au care cultural pair | 18 |
animal pair | 31 | dirty flash pair picture | 18 |
au movie pair | 29 | fille au pair | 17 |
famous pair | 29 | minimal pair | 17 |
au pair uk | 29 | pair gain | 16 |
america au pair | 27 | dirty flash image pair | 16 |
ef au pair | 27 | dirty pair picture | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | parë (boodle, seen), palë (cuff, fly, gathers, hem, lap, lappet, pendant, reef, roll, turn up), martohem me (Wed), bashkohen, çiftoj (match), çiftohen, çift (conjugate, couple, couplet, double, doublet, duet, match, span, twin, two, twosome). (various references) | |
Arabic | زوجين, زوجان (couple, twain), زوج من الحيوان, زوج قرين (companion, duo, hubby, husband, man, mate, partner, team, twosome), زوج (consort, couple, dyad, espouse, give in marriage, husband, marry, partner, stud, wed), إلتقان أزواجا, إقترنان, إزدوج (couple, geminate), إجتمع أزواجا, ثنائي (bi-, bilateral, binary, dual, duet, duo, duple, twofold, twosome), رتب زوجا زوجا, رتب زواج زوجين. (various references) | |
Basque | pare (brace). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чифтосваме се, чифтосвам (couple, mate, twin), чифт (brace, case, twain), оженваме се (pair off), оженвам (give in marriage, hitch, marry, marry off, mate, splice, turn off), образувам чифтове, образувам чифт, образувам двойка, образувам двойки, еш (companion, fellow, mate, pendant, tally, twin), партньори, двойка (couple, double, dyad, twain, twosome). (various references) | |
Chinese | 耦 (mate, ploughshare), 雙 (both, double, two), 偶 (accidental, image, mate), 對 (correct, couple, for, right, to, to answer, to be opposite, to direct, to face, to oppose, to reply), 一對 (couple), 对 (To, To-, Versus, VS). (various references) | |
Czech | pár (couple, doublet, few, several, some). (various references) | |
Danish | par (precision approach radar, wire pair), trådpar (wire pair), senderpar, ledningspar (wire pair). (various references) | |
Dutch | paar (couple), tweetal, stel (bevy, collection, good great group, group, heap, herd, outfit, pack, put, set, suit), koppel (batch, batch of animals, couple, strap, webbing), duo. (various references) | |
Esperanto | paro, parigi (couple, match, unite), duo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | par. (various references) | |
Farsi | هرچیزدوجزءی , زن وشوهر (Couple), زوج (Couple, Even, Spouse, Twin), جفت کردن وشدن , جفت (Couple, Double, Geminate, Jugate, Match, Mate, Peer, Tandem, Team, Twin), جورکردن وشدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | pari (couple). (various references) | |
French | paire (wire pair), couple, apparier. (various references) | |
Frisian | pear, twatal. (various references) | |
German | Paar (a few, couple, partnership, set, twosome). (various references) | |
Greek | ζευγάρι (couple). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לצמוד (couple, link, tie in), זוג (brace, couple, dyad, mate, twosome), צמד (brace, couple, span, team, twosome). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pár (couple, twain), házaspár, fogat (draught, rig, setout, team, turnout), egy pár (brace, couple, dyad). (various references) | |
Icelandic | par. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pasangan (counterpart, couple, duo, mate, partner), sepasang (binary), menjodohkan (give in marriage, marry off), kelamin (couple (male and female), gender, sex), bandung. (various references) | |
Italian | paio (brace, couple, twain, yoke), coppia (brace, couple, match, twosome). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 二人組 (duo, twosome), 二人 (couple, two people, two persons), 二人 (couple, two people, two persons), 双 (set), ペーパー電池 (double glazing, dragon boat, pain clinic, paint, pair occupation, pair skating, pairing, pair-oar, pair-wise, paper cell, parent, pavement, pavement artist, pay, pay bridge, payday, payload specialist, payment, pear, Pegasus, per, races with such boats, unmarried couple living together), 夫婦 (couple, husband and wife, married couple, spouses), 両者 (both persons, both things, the two), 対遇 (antithesis), 対 (against, couple, opposition, ratio, set, versus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいぐう (antithesis, contraposition, married couple, reception, treatment), ペア (pear), ふたりぐみ (duo, twosome), ふたり (couple, two people, two persons), ふた (cap, cover, lid, set), ふうふ (couple, husband and wife, married couple, spouses), つい (couple, set), ににんぐみ (duo, twosome), ににん (couple, two people, two persons), りょうしゃ (both persons, both things, dormitory, the two), めおと (couple, husband and wife, married couple, spouses), みょうと (couple, husband and wife, married couple, spouses). (various references) | |
Korean | 쌍. (various references) | |
Manx | piyrey (pairing), piyral (couple, match, match in pairs, matching, pairing), piyr (brace, couple), lannoonaghey (couple, pairing), jees (both, brace, couple, twain, two), cubblaghey (human copulation, marry, mate). (various references) | |
Norwegian | par (couple). (various references) | |
Occitan | parelh (brace). (various references) | |
Papiamen | par, duo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airpay.(various references) | |
Polish | para (steam, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Portuguese | par (bond, couplet, duet, duetto, even, fellow, oxbow, peer, twain), parelha (bond, couple, match, team), casal (couple, couplet, married couple, twosome). (various references) | |
Romanian | împerechea (couple, geminate, match, mate, unite). (various references) | |
Russian | супружеская чета, сочетать браком (mate), соединяться (ally, amalgamate, associate, coalesce, connect, couple, interlock, knit, merge, reunite, unite, yoke together), соединять по двое, смена (change, exchange, relay, relief, shift), спаривать пара, располагать парами, чета (couple), вещь (article, concern, object, shebang, thing), парный (conjugate, double, jugate, mating, pair-horse, twin), пара (couple, doublet, dyad, match, pendant, twain, two, two bits, twosome). (various references) | |
Scottish | paidhir (a pair, brace, couple), speuclair (pair of spectacles, spectacles), dithis (a pair, two persons; often erroneously applied), coingir (a pair), clobha (a pair of tongs, pair of tongs), càraid (a pair, couple, married couple). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | par (couple, couple: a couple of, dyad, match, twosome), spregnuti (harness), spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), spariti (couple, match, mate), bračni par. (various references) | |
Spanish | par (brace, couple, equal, even, like, par, peer, placenta, rafter, time). (various references) | |
Sranan | wantu. (various references) | |
Swedish | par (brace, couple, couples, pairs, span, team, twosome, yoke). (various references) | |
Turkish | iki parçadan oluşan şey, evlendirmek (espouse, marry, marry off, match, mate, pair off, splice, tie, Wed, yoke), eşlemek (match, mate), eşleşmek, eş (better half, coequal, companion, compeer, consort, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, couple, doublet, duplicate, dutch, equal, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, husband, identic, identical, iso-, lady, like, match, matching, mate, old lady, old man, old woman, one of a pair, Parti, partner, placenta, spousal, spouse, the missis, the old woman, wife), arabanın iki atı, çiftleştirmek (cause to mate, couple, service), çiftleşmek (breed, copulate, couple, mate, rut, tread, tup), çift olmak, çift (ambi-, amphi-, bi-, binary, brace, conjugate, couple, dipl-, diplo, double, dual, duet, duple, duplicate, dyad, even, geminate, twin, yoke). (various references) | |
Turkmen | taя (colt, stallion). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спаровувати (couple), розташовуватися парами, розташовувати парами, одружуватися (espouse, marry, match, spouse), з'єднувати по двоє, подружжя (consort), пара (couple, doublet, fume, match, pendant, steam, twain, two, twosome, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tầng gác đó lại là vấn đề khác, từng cặp cầu thang, cặp cặp vợ chồng, đôi đực cái, đôi (binary, couple, double, two). (various references) | |
Welsh | pa+r (brace, lance, spear, suit), cymharu (compare). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tab. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | syzygia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | combinare, conpar, conparabimus, conparabitur, conparabo, conparabor, conparantes, conparare, conparari, conparastis, conparata, conparate, conparati, conparatus, conparaverunt, conparavi, conparavit, conparemus, conparer, conparet, conparetur, conparis, iuga, iuge, iugi, iugis, iugo, iugum, paria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 2, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai tou dounai qusian kata to eirhmenon en nomw kuriou zeugoV trugonwn h duo neossouV peristerwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et ut darent hostiam secundum quod dictum est in lege Domini par turturum aut duos pullos columbarum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And þæt hig offrunge sealdon æfter þam þe drihtnes æ. gecweden is. twa turtlan. oððe twegen culfran briddas. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Aftir that it is seid in the lawe of the Lord, A peire of turturis, or twei culuer briddis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves or two yonge pigions. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And to make an offering, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord, of two doves or other young birds. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 2, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | ug sa paghalad ug halad-inihaw sumala sa giingon sa kasugoan sa Ginoo, nga "duha ka tukmo, o duha ka salampati nga kuyabog." |
| Croatian | i da prinesu žrtvu kako je reèeno u Zakonu Gospodnjem: dvije grlice ili dva golubiæa. |
| Danish | og for at bringe Offer efter det, som er sagt i Herrens Lov, et Par Turtelduer eller to unge Duer. |
| Dutch | En opdat zij offerande gaven, naar hetgeen in de wet des Heeren gezegd is, een paar tortelduiven, of twee jonge duiven. |
| Finnish | ja uhrataksensa, niinkuin Herran laissa on säädetty, parin metsäkyyhkysiä tai kaksi kyyhkysenpoikaa. |
| French | et pour offrir en sacrifice deux tourterelles ou deux jeunes pigeons, comme cela est prescrit dans la loi du Seigneur. |
| German | und das sie gäben das Opfer, wie es gesagt ist im Gesetz des HERRN: "Ein Paar Turteltauben oder zwei junge Tauben." |
| Hungarian | És hogy áldozatot adjanak, a szerint a mint megmondatott az Úr törvényében: Egy pár gerliczét, vagy két galambfiat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka juga bermaksud mempersembahkan kurban, yaitu sepasang burung tekukur atau dua ekor burung merpati yang muda, seperti yang ditentukan dalam Hukum Tuhan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan lagi hendak mempersembahkan korban, sebagaimana yang tersebut di dalam hukum Allah, yaitu: Burung tekukur sepasang, atau anak merpati dua ekor. |
| Italian | e per offrire in sacrificio una coppia di tortore o di giovani colombi, come prescrive la Legge del Signore. |
| Latvian | Un lai upurçtu vienu pâri ûbeïu vai divus jaunus baloþus, kâ tas sacîts Kunga bauslîbâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | As dy hebbal yn oural t'er ny harey ayns leigh yn Chiarn, Piyr dy chalmaneyn turtle, ny daa chalmane aegey. |
| Maori | Kia hoatu ano he patunga tapu, te mea i korerotia i roto i te ture a te Ariki, Kia rua kukupa, kia rua ranei pi kukupa. |
| Norwegian | og for å gi offer, efter det som er sagt i Herrens lov, et par turtelduer eller to due-unger. |
| Portuguese | e para oferecerem um sacrifício segundo o disposto na lei do Senhor: um par de rolas, ou dois pombinhos. |
| Rumanian | wi ca sq aducq jertfq: o pqreche de turturele sau doi pui de porumbei, dupq cum este poruncit kn Legea Domnului. |
| Russian | Й ЮФПВЩ РТЙОЕУФЙ Ч ЦЕТФЧХ, РП ТЕЮЕООПНХ Ч ЪБЛПОЕ зПУРПДОЕН, ДЧЕ ЗПТМЙГЩ ЙМЙ ДЧХИ РФЕОГПЧ ЗПМХВЙОЩИ. |
| Shuar | Tuma asamtai, Marí Yusa Uunt Jeen Wáitsuk pujamu wayatniuri jeamtai, uchin Yus Iistí tusa Yusa Uunt Jeen Jerusarénnum pujana nui itiarmiayi. Tura yampitsan Jímiaran Súsarmiayi. Muisáis akupkamun umiiniak nuna Túrawarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Pia walikwenda ili watoe sadaka: hua wawili au makinda wawili ya njiwa, kama ilivyotakiwa katika Sheria ya Bwana. |
| Swedish | så ock för att offra "ett par duvor eller två unga turturduvor", såsom stadgat var i Herrens lag. |
| Uma | Rakeni wo'o pepue' -ra, ntuku' hawa' to te'uki' hi rala Buku Atura Pue': hamoko korokou ba roma'a ana' mangkebodo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pair": paired, pairing, pairings, pairs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pair": despair, disrepair, impair, repair, unrepair. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pair": despaired, despairer, despairers, despairing, despairingly, despairs, disrepairs, impaired, impairer, impairers, impairing, impairment, impairments, impairs, repairabilities, repairability, repairable, repaired, repairer, repairers, repairing, repairman, repairmen, repairs, unimpaired, unpaired, unrepairs. (additional references) | |
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"Pair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: api, apier, apir, apor, apri, jair, kair, nair, paar, pabr, padir, paeir, pahit, pai, paie, paif, paig, paik, Pairc, paird, paire, pairi, Pairic, pairl, pairm, pairn, Pairoj, pairy, pait, paix, paiz, pakir, panir, Paor, Papior, Paria, paric, pario, parir, pavier, pavior, Pavitra, paxi, Payg, payi, peier, peir, Phaer, Phaire, Phairy, piaf, piah, Piara, pibr, piqr, pir, pira, piri, pirr, plair, Poari, poir, pria, spair. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pair" (pronounced pe"r) |
| 3 | p e" r | compare, despair, disrepair, impair, pare, pear, prepare, repair, spare. |
| 2 | -e" r | affair, air, aware, bare, bear, beware, billionaire, blare, care, chair, concessionaire, dare, debonair, declare, doctrinaire, ensnare, err, Eyre, fair, fare, fer, flair, flare, forswear, glare, hair, hare, heir, lair, Lehr, Mair, mare, midair, millionaire, multimillionaire, prayer, questionnaire, rare, scare, share, snare, solitaire, Square, stair, stare, swear, tear, their, there, unaware, unfair, ware, wear, where. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-r" | |
-1 letter: air, par, pia, rap, ria, rip. | |
-2 letters: ai, ar, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-r" | |
+1 letter: atrip, carpi, padri, pairs, pardi, paris, pilar, prima, rapid, tapir. | |
+2 letters: apiary, armpit, aspire, capric, capris, diaper, diapir, harpin, impair, impark, impart, inwrap, paired, palier, panier, papyri, pardie, pariah, parian, paries, paring, parish, parity, parvis, pavior, pereia, picara, picaro, pillar, piracy, pirana, pirate, piraya, praise, praxis, priapi, primal, primas, pyuria, raphia, raphis, rapids, rapier, rapine, raping, rapini, rapist, repaid, repair, riprap, ripsaw, rupiah, sparid, spiral, spirea, sprain, tapirs. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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