pair
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Is pair a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of pair?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
2. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.Synonyms: pair of spectacles, spectacles
3. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.Examples: "They turned a pair to end the fifth."informal
4. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teamsExamples: "The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies."informal
5. (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
6. (slang) A pair of breastsExamples: "She's got a gorgeous pair."slang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.Examples: "The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party."; "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 is paired with shining white."transitive
2. (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.Examples: "It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch."; "If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver."
3. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.transitive
4. (intransitive) To come together for mating.Examples: "The raven, in short, when he pairs, which he does at the earliest moment permitted by the laws of ravendom, pairs for life […]"intransitive
5. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.slang
6. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.Examples: "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."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.Examples: "Why dreghis þou þis dole, & deris þi seluyn? / Lefe of þis Langore, as my lefe brother, / Þat puttes þe to payne and peires þi sight."; "It were good therefore, that Men in their Innouations, would follow the Example of Time it ſelfe ; which indeed Innouateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, ſcarce to be perceiued : For otherwiſe, whatſoeuer is New, is vnlooked for ; And euer it mends Some, and paires Other […]"; "'No faith so fast', quoth she, 'but flesh does pair'"obsoletetransitive
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate.intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary