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pair
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[ noun ] a set of two similar things considered as a unit
Synonyms Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)The Flock added a pair of tallies in the third on three straight hits after two were out . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The White_Sox had taken a 5 - 4 lead in the top of the sixth on a pair of pop_fly hits - a triple by Roy_Sievers and single by Camilo_Carreon - a walk and a sacrifice_fly . (The New York Times,...)Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players , coaches and team officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)At the left is a pair of dressy straw pumps in a light , but crisp texture . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)It is not difficult to see that the stamens of the catkin are always arranged in pairs , and that each individual flower is nothing but one such pair standing on a green , black tipped little scale . Related terms |
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[ noun ] two items of the same kind
Used in print (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)As shown in Figure 1 , there is a connection for communication between every pair of points . The completeness of the connections provide that , for N people , there are * * f lines of communication between the pairs , which can become a large_number ( 1225 ) for a party of fifty guests . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)This second conclusion , independently arrived at by independent study of material from two pairs of language families as different and remote from one another as these four are , cannot be ignored . |
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[ noun ] two people considered as a unit
Used in print (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta , as every artist delights to do , wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and - especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair - into the relations of men and women : `` In their relations , she was the giver and he the receiver , nay the demander . |
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[ verb ] form a pair or pairs
Synonyms Examples "The two old friends paired off" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Two poets are paired on each record , in the order given above . |
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[ verb ] bring two objects, ideas, or people together
Examples "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" Used in print (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)When each number of successes x is paired with its probability of occurrence * * f , the set of pairs * * f , is a probability function called a binomial_distribution . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11481
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[ noun ] (cards) a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
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