Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Every body sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display severalpair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixtypairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseenpair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
I couldn't decide which of thepair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought thepair.
One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
1992, Elizabeth Jane Howard,Marking Time: Volume 2 of The Cazalet Chronicle, page74:
[S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled itspair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.
(Australia,politics) Theexclusion of one member of aparliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
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.
One-line business is optional; three-line business compulsory; when it's two lines you have to be on parade unless you have secured a 'pair' and cleared it with the 'pairing whip'.
(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
Thou lieſt; I ha’ nothing buy my ſkin, / And my cloaths; my ſword here, and my ſelf; / Two Crowns in my pocket; twopair of Cards; / And three falſe Dice: I can ſwim like a fiſh / Raſcal, nothing to hinder me.
It would never do, you know, for me to be plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up threepair of stairs, and all that sort of thing.
(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 inturning pair,sliding pair,twisting pair.
The usual plural ofpair ispairs. This is a recent innovation; the pluralpair was formerly predominant and may be found in older texts like "A Key to Joyce's Arithmetic" (compareMiddle Englishpaire, pluralpaire). That is, a native English speaker, back in the early 19th century, would say20 pair of shoes, as opposed to today's20 pairs of shoes. In colloquial or dialectal speech, forms such as20 pair may still be found; because of their relegation to informal speech, they are now sometimesproscribed.
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Brown as I am, an Ethiopian dame / Inspired young Perseus with a gen’rous flame; / Turtles and doves of diff’ring hues unite, / And glossy jet ispaired with shining white.
(computing) to link two electronicdevices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such asBluetooth.
It was not possible topair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.
If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you canpair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
1707, Nicholas Rowe,The Royal Convert, 2nd edition, Jacob Tonson, published1714,page46:
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.
It were good therefore, that Men in theirInnouations, would follow the Example of Time it ſelfe ; which indeedInnouateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, ſcarce to be perceiued : For otherwiſe, whatſoeuer is New, is vnlooked for ; And euer it mends Some, andpaires Other[…]
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pair”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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