kerpeten

Part Of Speech: noun

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

Example: I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.

Definition: Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

Example: Spouses should make a great pair.

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

Example: a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans

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

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

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

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

Definition: A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

Example: They turned a pair to end the fifth.

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

Example: The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.

Definition: A boat for two sweep rowers.

Definition: A pair of breasts

Example: She's got a gorgeous pair.

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Example: There were two pairs on the final vote.

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

Definition: (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.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To group into one or more sets of two.

Example: The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.

Definition: To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.

Definition: To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

Definition: To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/ˈpɪnsəɹz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers.

Phonetic: "/ˈpɪnsəɹz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.

Definition: The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.