Pair

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.”

2. isim One of the constituent items that make up a pair.

   “[S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.”

3. isim Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

   “Spouses should make a great pair.”

4. isim 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. isim 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. isim A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
7. isim A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
8. isim A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

   “They turned a pair to end the fifth.”

9. isim A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.

   “The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.”

10. isim A boat for two sweep rowers.
11. isim A pair of breasts.

    “She's got a gorgeous pair.”

12. isim A pair of testicles.

    “Grow a pair, mate.”

13. isim 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.
14. isim 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.

    “There were two pairs on the final vote.”

15. isim A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.

    “Thou lieſt; I ha’ nothing buy my ſkin, / And my cloaths; my ſword here, and my ſelf; / Two Crowns in my pocket; two pair of Cards; / And three falſe Dice: I can ſwim like a fiſh / Raſcal, nothing to hinder me.”

16. isim 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.
17. fiil To group into one or more sets of two.

    “The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.”

18. fiil to 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.”

19. fiil To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
20. fiil 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 […]”

21. fiil To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
22. fiil 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.”

23. fiil To 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.”

24. fiil To become worse, to deteriorate.
25. özel isim A surname.