DictionaryThesaurusScrabbleExamplesQuiz

pair meaning

EN[peə(r)]
US

WPair

Pair may refer to:
2 (number), two of something, a pair
Topological pair, an inclusion of topological spaces
Tuple
Product type
Au pair, a work agreement
Couple (disambiguation), various senses for two joined things

NounPLpairs
1. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
  1. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
VerbSGpairsPRpairingPT, PPpaired
1. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!
  - The eight on the turn was another undercard to her pair of nines ‎
  - The second pair consists of chironomid-based salinity reconstruction derived from varved sediments in Qaidam Basin and ASM precipitation index derived from the speleothem in Sha’anxi.

Meaning of pair for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "pair" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form, an invariant noun, an irregular plural, a nouns with irregular plural and a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Nouns
  - Noun forms
    - Plurals
      - Irregular plurals
        Invariant nouns
    - Noun plural forms
      - Irregular plurals
        Invariant nouns
  - Invariant nouns
  - Irregular plurals
    - Invariant nouns
  - Nouns with irregular plurals
    - Invariant nouns
  - Countable nouns
2. Verbs
  - Intransitive verbs
  - Transitive verbs

Difficultness: Level 1

12345678910
Easy ➨ Difficult

Definiteness: Level 9

12345678910
Definite ➨ Versatile

Related Links:

fr pair
en pairs
fr pairs
en paired
en pairing