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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Pair \Pair\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paired; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pairing.]
1. To be joined in pairs; to couple; to mate, as for
breeding.
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2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
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My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
--Rowe.
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3. Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
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To pair off, to separate from a group in pairs or couples;
specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the
opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on
specified questions or issues. See Pair, n., 6.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Pairing \Pair"ing\, n. [See Pair, v. i.]
1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or
couples.
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2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
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Pairing time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Pairing \Pair"ing\, n. [See Pair, v. i.]
1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or
couples.
2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
Pairyng time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Pair \Pair\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paired; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pairing.]
1. To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for
breeding.
2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
--Rowe.
3. Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
To pair off, to separate from a company in pairs or
couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one
of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on
specified questions or issues. See Pair, n., 6.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
pairing
n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn:
coupling, mating, conjugation, union, sexual
union]
2: the act of grouping things or people in pairs
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pairing
n.
1 The combination or union of two things.
2 (lb en politics) An agreement between two members of a legislative
body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may
absent themselves.
vb.
(present participle of en pair nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
pairing
n.
1 The combination or union of two things.
2 (lb en politics) An agreement between two members of a legislative
body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may
absent themselves.
vb.
(present participle of en pair nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
pairing
n.
1 The combination or union of two things.
2 (lb en politics) An agreement between two members of a legislative
body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may
absent themselves.
vb.
(present participle of en pair nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
pairing
n.
1 The combination or union of two things.
2 (lb en politics) An agreement between two members of a legislative
body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may
absent themselves.
vb.
(present participle of en pair nocat=1)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pairing
Engelska a.
(avledning en pair ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb pair)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Pairing /pˈeəɹɪŋ/ التزاوجFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
pairing /pˈeəɹɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]párování
pairing /pˈeəɹɪŋ/ PaarungFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]see: pairings
pairing /pˈeəɹɪŋ/ kombinierend see: pair sth. with sth., paired, wine to pair with the foodFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
pairing /pˈeəɹɪŋ/ sich paarend see: pair, pairedFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
pairing /pˈeəɹɪŋ/ ζευγάρωμαFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈpɛɹɪŋ/
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "pairing":
Janus, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, ambiguity,
ambivalence, articulation, biformity, bifurcation, bond,
bracketing, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation,
concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration,
conjugation, conjunction, connection, convergence, copulation,
coupling, dichotomy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism,
duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality,
gathering, halving, hookup, intercommunication, intercourse,
interlinking, irony, joinder, joining, jointure, junction,
knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger,
merging, polarity, splice, symbiosis, tie, tie-in, tie-up,
twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unification, union, yoking
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 成对