pair : Idioms & Phrases

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A pair of bellows

  • the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.
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Astatic pair

  • (Magnetism), a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.
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au pair

  • noun a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework
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au pair girl

  • noun a foreign girl serving as an au pair
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base pair

  • noun one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA
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pair creation

  • noun the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus
    pair formation; pair creation.
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pair formation

  • noun the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus
    pair formation; pair creation.
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pair of pincers

  • noun a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
    tweezer; pair of pincers; pincer.
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pair of pliers

  • noun a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws
    pliers; plyers.
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pair of scissors

  • noun an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
    scissors.
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pair of tongs

  • noun any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below
    tongs.
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pair of tweezers

  • noun a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
    tweezer; pair of pincers; pincer.
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pair of virginals

  • noun a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries
    virginal.
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pair off

  • verb form a pair or pairs
    pair; couple; partner off.
    • The two old friends paired off
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pair production

  • noun the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus
    pair formation; pair creation.
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Pair royal

  • (pl. Pairs Royal) three things of a sort; used especially of playing cards in some games, as cribbage; as three kings, three "eight spots" etc. Four of a kind are called a double pair royal. "Something in his face gave me as much pleasure as a pair royal of naturals in my own hand." Goldsmith. "That great pair royal of adamantine sisters [the Fates]." Quarles. Written corruptly parial and prial.
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Paired fins

  • . (Zoöl.) See under Fin.
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Post and pair

  • an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. B. Jonson.
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Sliding pair

  • . (Mech.) See the Note under Pair, n., 7.
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To pair off

  • to separate from a company in pairs or couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues. See Pair, n., 6.
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Turning pair

  • . See the Note under Pair, n.
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Twisting pair

  • . (Kinematics) See under Pair, n., 7.
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