Pair
//pɛə//
Word Type
Noun
Verb
Proper Noun
The word "pair" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.
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Derived Terms
Breit-Wheeler pair production Cooper pair Darlington pair Hoogsteen base pair Kramers pair Lax pair Sziklai pair acid-base pair alpha pair another pair of shoes aspectual pair base pair base-pair breathing bottom pair byte pair encoding carriage and pair conjugate acid-base pair conjugate redox pair contrapair coxless pair dispair eigenpair electron pair extra pair of hands extrapair force pair fresh pair of eyes get a pair golden pair grow a pair have a pair homologous pair in pairs inert pair effect interpair intrapair inversion pair kernel pair keypair kilobase pair king pair linear pair live pair lone pair megabase pair middle pair minimal pair mispair 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 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 off pair production pair programmer pair programming pair royal pair skating pair up pair-horse pair-oar(ed) pairable pairbreaking pairforming pairing pairwise pairwork photopair pigeon pair pocket pair post and pair rarepair repair 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 think-pair-share think-pair-sharing top pair twin prime pair twisted pair underpair unpair
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