What does "paired" mean?

simple past and past participle of pair

What is a synonym for "paired"?

Common synonyms include: matched, mated, accessory, accompanying, affiliate, affiliated.

Paired

//pɛəd// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1
simple past and past participle of pair form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1
That occurs as a pair.

Adjective

1
matched for breeding wordnet
2
occurring in pairs or as a pair wordnet
3
of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

matched mated accessory accompanying affiliate affiliated

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"This is why Tatoeba is multilingual. But not that kind of multilingual. Not the kind where languages are simply being paired up together, and where some pairs are left behind."

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