Pair

What do we mean by pair?

Two corresponding persons or items, similar in form or function and matched or associated. noun

One object composed of two joined, similar parts that are dependent upon each other. noun

Two persons who are married, engaged, or dating. noun

Two persons who have something in common and are considered together. noun

Two mated animals. noun

Two animals joined together in work. noun

Two playing cards of the same denomination. noun

Two members of a deliberative body with opposing opinions on a given issue who agree to abstain from voting on the issue, thereby offsetting each other. noun

An electron pair. noun

To arrange in sets of two; couple. intransitive verb

To combine or join (one person or thing) with another to form a pair. intransitive verb

To form pairs or a pair. intransitive verb

To join with another in love or mating. intransitive verb

To form a pair or pairs; specifically, to be joined in pairs as birds are in the breeding season; mate; couple.

To suit; fit; match.

To abstain from voting by arrangement with a member of the opposite party to do the same: said of members of deliberative assemblies. See pairing.

To join in couples; specifically, to cause to mate: as, to pair a canary with a siskin.

To unite or assort in twos as well suited to each other.

In roulette, an even number. noun

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

Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

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

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

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

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

A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

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

A boat for two sweep rowers.

A pair of breasts

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.

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.

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

(kinematics) 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.

Words that are spelled similarly to pair:
pair.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word pair:
scissors, skater, struts, skating, pairs, shoes, glasses, gloves, aft, boots, dancing, electrons, fuselage, legs, guns, nest, twins, wheels, wings, mounted, eyes, ice, bronze, breeding, bond, twin, doors.

Words that rhyme with pair:
bear, care, air, flare, tear, fair, chair, wear, square, fare, share, despair, there, hair, bare, spare, aware, healthcare, where, software, rare, dare, compare, welfare, flair, hare, swear, pear, ware, their, affair, repair, declare, ere, hardware, err, prayer, heir, impair, stare, mare, pare, prepare, bair, lair, glare, snare, daycare, scare, warfare, questionnaire, debonair, nowhere, faire, laissez faire, nightmare, mer, childcare, fanfare, dispair, forebear, beware, everywhere, health care, solitaire, aer, unfair, ensnare, extraordinaire, lare, malware, eyre, unaware, blare, stair, thoroughfare, claire, anywhere, threadbare, blair, clair, forswear, underwear, elsewhere, guerre, footwear, cookware, gare, cher, doctrinaire, armchair, medicare, mohair, millionaire, altair, terre, delaware, airfare, day care, earthenware.

Adjectives that are often used to describe pair:
first, second, new, single, twisted, last, third, extra, happy, next, fifth, fine, royal, key, base, fourth, lone, anterior, posterior, clean, married, ion, hole, upper, nice, front, wedded, differential, terminal, middle, beautiful, outer, handsome, latter, electron, guilty, fresh, huge, corresponding, strange, complementary, spare, homologous, minimal, twin, odd, inner, pretty, unshared, sixth, seventh, median, adjacent, value, top, two, eighth, precious, assorted, sharp, unlikely, radical, positron, youthful, lovely, noble, 1st, enormous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective pair:
share, bonding, dice, formation, wise, oared, production, bond, list, feeding, bonds, correlation, gain, horse, royal, configuration, comparison, scores, programming, housing, marriage, companion, distribution, group, fed, potential, shang, potentials, test, field, sharing, differences, merge, matched, based.

Consonant match to pair:
peer, poor, par, pear, pier, pour, pare, pore, parr, por, paar, poore, porr, poire.

Words that sound like pair:
pair, pear, pare, perr, paire, peer, pier, peir, pir, peart, pyr, p.r, power, poor, pour, par, pore, pyre, pire, payer, por, parr, poer, paer, powr, porr, pyar, poore, paar, poar, p.a, poir, payor, pawer, paur, poyer, bear, bare, baer, bair, berr, baehr, bahr, behr, beer, pepper, per, perry, pairs, pez, pears, para, paired, pierre, parry, peper, bier, pared, peri, bere, petter, penner, pere, beare, byr, pares, pesh, petr, perrie, au pair, parer, peller, plar, petar, peh, pegger, peder, petre, peffer, pker, pedder, peker, plor, beere, apair, biere, parah, plr, pesch, para-, opere, appair, pairer, pekar, perh, pedir, pedr, pairo, pegar, ppar.