pair

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /pɛə/    美 /pɛɹ/|/peː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
    — Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Every body sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
  2. Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.; 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. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
    — Spouses should make a great pair.
  4. 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. 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. A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
  7. A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
  8. A double play, two outs recorded in one play. informal
    — They turned a pair to end the fifth.
  9. A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams. informal
    — The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
  10. A boat for two sweep rowers.
  11. A pair of breasts. slang
    — She's got a gorgeous pair.
  12. A pair of testicles. slang
    — Grow a pair, mate.
  13. 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. Australia
  14. 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. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set. archaic
    — 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. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To group into one or more sets of two. transitive
    — The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
  2. To impair, to make worse. obsolete,transitive
    — 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.
    Why endure this misery, and hurt yourself? / End this disease, my dear brother, / That pains you and impairs your sight.
  3. 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.
  4. To become worse, to deteriorate. intransitive,obsolete
  5. To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating. transitive
  6. To come together for mating. intransitive
    — The raven, in short, when he pairs, which he does at the earliest moment permitted by the laws of ravendom, pairs for life […]
  7. To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. slang
  8. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

pairs plural pair archaic,dialectal,plural pairs present,singular,third-person pairing participle,present paired participle,past paired past pairs present,singular,third-person pairing participle,present paired participle,past paired past

词汇关系

近义词
duo dyad couple brace twosome duplet
衍生词
acid-base pair alpha pair another pair of shoes aspectual pair base pair base-pair breathing bottom pair Breit-Wheeler pair production byte pair encoding carriage and pair Church pair conjugate acid-base pair conjugate redox pair contrapair Cooper pair coxless pair Darlington pair dispair eigenpair electron pair extrapair extra pair of hands force pair fresh pair of eyes get a pair golden pair grow a pair have a pair homologous pair Hoogsteen base pair inert pair effect in pairs interpair intrapair inversion pair kernel pair keypair kilobase pair king pair Kramers pair Lax pair linear pair live pair lone pair megabase pair middle pair minimal pair multipair near-minimal pair on a pair one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen one pair ordered pair orthopair overpair pair and share pair bond pair bonding pairbreaking pairforming pair-horse pair-oar(ed) pair of binoculars pair of colors pair of colours pair of compasses pair of eyeglasses pair of forceps pair of glasses pair of goggles pair of hands pair of ladders pair of nutcrackers pair of pants pair of pincers pair of pliers pair of scissors pair of secateurs pair of shades pair of shears pair of shoes pair of specs pair of stairs pair of stepladders pair of sunglasses pair of tongs pair of trousers pair of tweezers pair of underwear pair production pair programmer pair programming pair royal pair skating pairwise pairwork photopair pigeon pair pocket pair post and pair rarepair royal pair safe pair of hands shielded twisted pair show a clean pair of heels slot pair stereopair strap on a pair subpair surrogate pair Sziklai pair think-pair-share think-pair-sharing top pair twin prime pair twisted pair underpair unpair
相关词
parity couple

词源

词源 1
From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adjective). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”), Italian paio (“pair”)
词源 2
From Middle English pairen, peiren, shortened form of apeiren, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, empoirier, from Late Latin peiōrō.
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