pair

pair is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
2. noun. Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
3. noun. Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
4. noun. A married couple; a man and wife.
5. noun. A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
6. noun. 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; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
7. noun. In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
8. intransitive verb. To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
9. intransitive verb. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
10. intransitive verb. Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
11. transitive verb. To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
12. transitive verb. To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
13. transitive verb. To impair.
14. noun. a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
15. noun. two people considered as a unit
16. noun. a set of two similar things considered as a unit

    Synonyms: brace

17. noun. two items of the same kind

    Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, span, twain, twosome, yoke

18. verb. bring two objects, ideas, or people together

    "This fact is coupled to the other one"

    "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"

    Synonyms: couple, match, mate, twin

19. verb. engage in sexual intercourse

    "Birds mate in the Spring"

    Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate

20. verb. arrange in pairs

    "Pair these numbers"

    Synonyms: geminate

21. verb. occur in pairs

    Synonyms: geminate

22. verb. form a pair or pairs

    "The two old friends paired off"

    Synonyms: couple

Synonyms

brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, span, twain, twosome, yoke, match, mate, twin, copulate, geminate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pair:

pari, pria, ripa

Common word forms

pairs, paired, pairer, pairing, pairment

Words from these letters

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