2 Pair Or 2 Pairs

English [edit]

Pair of porcelain Rococo figurines, circa 1755 (sense 1)

Pronunciation [edit]

• ( Received Pronunciation ) enPR: pâr, IPA^{(fundamental)}: /pɛə(ɹ)/
• ( Full general American ) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /pɛɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: pare, pear

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English language paire, from Sometime French paire, from Latin paria ( " equals " ), neuter plural of pār.

Noun [edit]

pair (plural pairs or ( archaic or dialectal ) pair )

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

   • 1834 February, "Boz" [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter II, in Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-mean solar day People. [ … ] , volume 2, London: John Macrone, [ … ] , published 1836, OCLC 912950347, page 266:

     Ting, ting, ting! went the bell over again. Every body sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling nearly, and in that location it remained.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, "The Heart of Darkness", in Blackwood'south Edinburgh Magazine, page 209:

     Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of blank feet behind me, each pair under a sixty-lb. load.

   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, "The Heart of Darkness", in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 210:

     So, i evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the 60 pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.

   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, "Obama'south once hip brand is now tainted", in The Guardian Weekly, book 189, number ane, page xviii:

     Where we in one case sent honey letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family anthology, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated past people we don't know and will never meet. Mayhap nosotros assume that our name, address and search preferences will exist viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human being, and don't mind that much.

   I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, and then I bought the pair.

   1. Ane of the constituent items that make up a pair.

      • 1992, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mark Time: Book 2 of The Cazalet Chronicle, page 74:

        [Due south]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag earlier handing them to her husband.

      • 1996, Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, page 219:

        Must exist proficient at athletics, domicile repairs, making mince interesting and finding the pair to the other glove.

2. Ii people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

   Spouses should make a great pair.

3. 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; 2 pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans

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

   A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.

5. ( card games ) A poker paw that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a ameliorate hand.
6. ( cricket ) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.

   Synonyms: pair of spectacles, spectacles

7. ( baseball, informal ) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

   They turned a pair to stop the 5th.

8. ( baseball game, breezy ) A doubleheader, two games played on the same 24-hour interval between the same teams

   The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.

9. ( rowing ) A gunkhole for 2 sweep rowers.
10. ( slang ) A pair of breasts

    She'due south got a gorgeous pair.

11. ( slang ) A pair of testicles

    Grow a pair, mate.

12. ( Australia, politics ) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary political party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
13. 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.

14. ( primitive ) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set up.

    • c. 1622, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, "The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.", in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. [ … ] , [part 1], London: [ … ] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, OCLC 1015511273, Deed I, scene i, page 341:

      Thou lieſt; I ha' nothing buy my ſkin, / And my cloaths; my ſword hither, and my ſelf; / Two Crowns in my pocket; two pair of Cards; / And 3 falſe Dice: I tin can ſwim like a fiſh / Raſcal, zip to hinder me.

    • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, "Comprises, amongst Other Important Matters, Pecksniffian and Architectural, an Verbal Relation of the Progress Made past Mr. Pinch in the Conviction and Friendship of the New Pupil", in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, [ … ] , published 1844, OCLC 977517776, page 74:

      It would never practice, you know, for me to be plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and dearest in i room up three pair of stairs, and all that sort of matter.

15. ( kinematics ) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other every bit to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.

Usage notes [edit]

The usual plural of pair is pairs. This is a recent innovation; the plural pair was formerly predominant and may be found in older texts like "A Key to Joyce's Arithmetic" (compare Heart English paire, plural paire). That is, a native English speaker, dorsum in the early 19th century, would say 20 pair of shoes, equally opposed to today's 20 pairs of shoes. In colloquial or dialectal speech, forms such as 20 pair may even so be found; because of their relegation to informal speech, they are now sometimes proscribed.

Synonyms [edit]

• ( two objects in a group ) : duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet; meet also Thesaurus:duo
• ( pair of breasts ) : See as well Thesaurus:breasts

Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from pair (noun, etym. 1)

Descendants [edit]

• → Tokelauan: pea

Translations [edit]

2 like or identical things

Albanian: çift  (sq) yard Arabic: زَوْج‎ thou ( zawj ) Egyptian Arabic: جوز‎ thousand ( gōz ), اجواز‎ mpl ( egwaz ), جوزين‎ granddu ( gōzen ) Armenian: զույգ  (hy) ( zuyg ) Aromanian: pãreaclje, pãreaclji, giugii, uidii, zivyari Azerbaijani: cüt  (az) Basque: biko Byelorussian: па́ра f ( pára ) Bengali: জোড়া ( joṛa ) Bulgarian: дво́йка  (bg) f ( dvójka ), чифт  (bg) m ( čift ) Burmese: ဒွေးဘော်  (my) ( dwe:bhau ), ယမက  (my) ( ya.ma.ka. ), အတွဲ  (my) ( a.twai: ) Catalan: parella  (ca) f , parell  (ca) g Chinese: Standard mandarin: 雙  (zh), 双  (zh) ( shuāng ), 對  (zh), 对  (zh) ( duì ), 一對  (zh), 一对  (zh) ( yīduì ) Czech: pár  (cs) chiliad Danish: par  (da) n Dutch: paar  (nl) n , koppel  (nl) n , duo  (nl) northward , tweetal  (nl) n Dzongkha: ཆ ( cha ) Esperanto: paro Estonian: paar Finnish: pari  (fi) French: paire  (fr) f Old French: couple Friulian: pâr Galician: par  (gl) m Georgian: წყვილი ( c̣q̇vili ) German: Paar  (de) n Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌿𐌺 north ( gajuk ) Greek: ζεύγος  (el) n ( zévgos ), ζευγάρι  (el) n ( zevgári ) Ancient: ζεῦγος n ( zeûgos ) Hawaiian: pa'a Hebrew: זוּג‎ (he) m ( zug ), צֶמֶד‎ (he) g ( tzémed ) Hindi: जोड़ा one thousand ( joṛā ) Hungarian: pár  (hu) Icelandic: par  (is) north Irish: péire m Italian: paio  (it) thousand Japanese: 対  (ja) ( たい, tai ), 一対  (ja) ( いっつい, ittsui ), 一組 ( ひとくみ, hitokumi ), ペア ( pea ) Kazakh: жұп ( jūp ) Khmer: គូ  (km) ( kuu ) Korean: 한쌍 ( hanssang ), 켤레  (ko) ( kyeolle ), 페어 ( peeo ) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: جووت‎ ( cût ) Northern Kurdish: cot  (ku) Kyrgyz: жуп  (ky) ( jup ) Lao: ຄູ່ ( khū ) Latin: par  (la) north Latvian: pāris  (lv) k

Lithuanian: pora f Luxembourgish: Puer n Macedonian: пар m ( par ), чифт 1000 ( čift ) Mansaka: paris Maori: tōpū Marāthi: जोडी f ( joḍī ) Middle English: paire Mongolian: хос  (mn) ( hos ) Moore: yɩɩbse Norman: pathe f Norwegian: Bokmål: par  (no) n Occitan: parelh  (oc) Oriya: ଜୋଡା ( joḍa ) Pashto: جوړه‎ (ps) f ( ǰoṛá ), زوج‎ m ( zawǰ ) Persian: جفت‎ (fa) ( joft ), زوج‎ (fa) ( zouj ) Plautdietsch: Poa n Smoothen: para  (pl) f Portuguese: par  (pt) m Quechua: t'inki Romanian: pereche  (ro) Romansch: pèra f , peera f Russian: па́ра  (ru) f ( pára ) Sanskrit: द्वंद्व  (sa) m or due north ( dvaṃdva ), मिथुन  (sa) m ( mithuna ) Scottish Gaelic: càraid f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пар chiliad Roman: par  (sh) thousand Shan: please add together this translation if you can Slovak: pár m Slovene: par  (sl) 1000 Castilian: par  (es) chiliad Swahili: jozi Swedish: par  (sv) n Tajik: ҷуфт  (tg) ( juft ) Tausug: pasang Thai: คู่  (th) ( kûu ) Turkish: çift  (tr) Turkmen: jübüt Ukrainian: па́ра f ( pára ) Urdu: جوڑا‎ m ( joṛā ) Uyghur: جۈپ‎ ( jüp ), پار‎ ( par ) Uzbek: juft  (uz), par  (uz) Venetian: pèr  (vec) m Vietnamese: đôi  (six), cặp  (vi) Welsh: pâr  (cy) m Yagnobi: ҷуфт ( juft ) Yiddish: פּאָר‎ f ( por ) Zazaki: çit Zhuang: please add together this translation if you can

two people in a relationship

Armenian: զույգ  (hy) ( zuyg ) Bulgarian: дво́йка  (bg) f ( dvójka ) Catalan: parella  (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 夫婦  (zh), 夫妇  (zh) ( fūfù ), 一對  (zh), 一对  (zh) ( yīduì ), 一雙, 一双 ( yīshuāng ) Czech: dvojice  (cs) f , pár  (cs) m Dutch: paar  (nl) n , koppel  (nl) n , stel  (nl) n Esperanto: duopo Finnish: pari  (fi) French: paire  (fr) f Georgian: წყვილი ( c̣q̇vili ) German: Paar  (de) n , Pärchen  (de) n Greek: ζευγάρι  (el) due north ( zevgári ), ζεύγος  (el) northward ( zévgos ) Ancient Greek: ζεῦγος north ( zeûgos ) Hebrew: זוּג‎ (he) 1000 ( zug ), צֶמֶד‎ (he) chiliad ( tzémed ) Irish: beirt f

Italian: coppia  (information technology) f Japanese: ペア ( pea ), 一対  (ja) ( いっつい, ittsui ) Korean: 한쌍 ( hanssang ), 일대  (ko) ( ildae ) ( literary ) Latvian: pāris  (lv) g Malay: tokorua Maori: tōpū Marathi: जोडी f ( joḍī ), युगुल  (mr) northward ( yugul ) Middle English: paire Norman: pathe f Polish: para  (pl) f , dwoje  (pl), dwójka  (pl) f , stadło  (pl) n Portuguese: par  (pt) m Romanian: pereche  (ro) f Russian: па́ра  (ru) f ( pára ), ( stilted, of married couples only ) чета́  (ru) f ( četá ) Sanskrit: द्वंद्व  (sa) grand or n ( dvaṃdva ), मिथुन  (sa) m ( mithuna ) Scottish Gaelic: càraid f , dithis f Spanish: pareja  (es) Thai: คู่หนึ่ง ( kûu-nʉ̀ng ) Turkish: çift  (tr) Vietnamese: cặp  (vi)

couple of working animals fastened to piece of work together

baseball: 2 outs recorded in ane play — meet double play

exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote

ii members of contrary parties who mutually agree non to vote on a given question

number of things resembling ane another, or belonging together — meet ready

kinematics: 2 elements, which permit but certain kind of relative motion

Translations to be checked

Verb [edit]

pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, uncomplicated past and past participle paired)

1. ( transitive ) To group into i or more sets of two.

   The wedding guests were paired boy/daughter and groom's party/bride'southward party.

   • a. 1744, Alexander Pope, "Sappho to Phaon", in John Wilson Croker, editor, The Works of Alexander Pope, volume I, new edition, J. Murray, published 1871, pages 94–95:

     Brown as I am, an Ethiopian dame / Inspired young Perseus with a gen'rous flame; / Turtles and doves of diff'band hues unite, / And glossy jet is paired with shining white.

2. ( calculating ) to link 2 electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth

   It was non possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.

   • If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you lot tin pair the device directly to the reckoner by using your computer's Bluetooth software configuration plan but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.

3. ( transitive ) To bring 2 (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
4. ( intransitive ) To come up together for mating.
   • 1883, Alexander Stewart, Nether Lochaber (page 112)

     The raven, in curt, when he pairs, which he does at the earliest moment permitted by the laws of ravendom, pairs for life […]

5. ( politics, slang ) To appoint (oneself) with some other of contrary opinions non to vote on a particular question or form of questions.
6. ( intransitive ) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

   • 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Regal Catechumen, 2nd edition, Jacob Tonson, published 1714, page 46:

     My Eye was made to fit and pair with thine, / Simple and plain, and fraught with artleſs Tenderneſs; / Grade'd to receive one Love, and simply 1, / But pleas'd and proud, and dearly fond of that, / It knows not what there tin exist in Diversity, / And would not if it could.

Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from pair (verb, etym. i)

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• parity

Translations [edit]

to group into sets of two

Encounter as well [edit]

• couple

Poker hands in English · poker easily (layout · text)
loftier card	pair	two pair	three of a kind	straight
affluent	full house	iv of a kind	straight flush	royal flush

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Center English pairen, peiren, shortened class of apeiren, empeiren, from One-time French empeirier, empoirier, from Belatedly Latin peiōrō.

Verb [edit]

pair (third-person atypical elementary present pairs, present participle pairing, simple by and past participle paired)

1. ( obsolete, transitive ) To impair, to make worse.

   • a. 1376?, Sir Hugh Eglintoun (uncertain), transl., George Panton, editor, The "Gest Hystoriale" of the Destruction of Troy, Due north. Trübner & Co., translation of Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne, published 1869, folio 117:

     Why dreghis þou þis dole, & deris þi seluyn? / Lefe of þis Langore, every bit my lefe brother, / Þat puttes þe to payne and peires þi sight.

     Why endure this misery, and hurt yourself? / End this illness, my love brother, / That pains you and impairs your sight.

   • 1625, Francis [Salary], "Of Innouations", in The Essayes [ … ] , 3rd edition, London: [ … ] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290, page 140:

     It were good therefore, that Men in their Innouations, would follow the Example of Time it ſelfe ; which indeed Innouateth profoundly, but quietly, and by degrees, ſcarce to be perceiued : For otherwiſe, whatſoeuer is New, is vnlooked for ; And euer information technology mends Some, and paires Other […]
2. ( obsolete, intransitive ) To become worse, to deteriorate.

Anagrams [edit]

• PIRA, RIPA, Ripa, pari-, raip

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Catalan [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Unknown. Compare dialectal Italian padire.

Pronunciation [edit]

• ( Balearic, Central ) IPA^(key): /pəˈi/
• ( Valencian ) IPA^(key): /paˈiɾ/
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb [edit]

pair (offset-person singular nowadays paeixo, by participle paït)

1. ( transitive, intransitive ) to digest

   Synonym: digerir

2. ( figuratively, transitive ) to handle, to cope with

   de mal pair ― difficult to take

Conjugation [edit]

Derived terms [edit]

• païble
• païda
• païdor
• païment

Farther reading [edit]

• "pair" in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
• "pair", in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• "pair" in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• "pair" in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin pār ( " equal " ).

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(cardinal): /pɛʁ/

Adjective [edit]

pair (feminine paire, masculine plural pairs, feminine plural paires)

1. ( of a number ) even

   Antonym: impair

Derived terms [edit]

• aller de pair
• fonction paire
• nombre pair

[edit]

• parité

Noun [edit]

pair m (plural pairs)

1. a peer, loftier nobleman/vassal (as in peer of the realm)

Derived terms [edit]

• au pair
• évaluation par les pairs
• hors pair

Antonyms [edit]

• pari m

Further reading [edit]

• "pair", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Linguistic communication] , 2012.

Anagrams [edit]

• pari, pria, ripa

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Louisiana Creole French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From French peur ( " fright " ), compare Haitian Creole pè.

Verb [edit]

pair

1. to be afraid

References [edit]

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

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Middle English [edit]

Noun [edit]

pair

1. Alternative grade of paire

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Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From French pair.

Noun [edit]

pair m (plural pairi)

1. peer ( noble )

Declension [edit]

Declension of pair

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite joint	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pair	pairul	(niște) pairi	pairii
genitive/dative	(unui) pair	pairului	(unor) pairi	pairilor
vocative	pairule		pairilor

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Romansch [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

• pér (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• peir (Surmiran)

Etymology [edit]

From Latin pirum.

Noun [edit]

pair m (plural pairs )

1. ( Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader ) pear

[edit]

• paira
• pairer

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Welsh [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /pai̯r/

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle Welsh peir, from Proto-Brythonic *pėr, from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos. Cognate with Irish gaelic coire.

Noun [edit]

pair thousand (plural peiri or peirau)

1. cauldron, banality
2. furnace

Derived terms [edit]

• peiran
• peiriaid

Etymology ii [edit]

See the etymology of the respective lemma class.

Verb [edit]

pair

1. ( literary ) third-person atypical present indicative/future of peri

Mutation [edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pair	bair	mhair	phair
Notation: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Non every possible mutated grade of every word actually occurs.

References [edit]

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–nowadays), "pair", in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Avant-garde Welsh & Celtic Studies

2 Pair Or 2 Pairs,

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pair

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