Usually means: Two items grouped or associated.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pair: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pair, pair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pair: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pair: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pair, pair: Wordnik
  7. pair: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pair, pair: Wiktionary
  9. pair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pair: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pair, pair: Dictionary.com
  13. pair (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pair: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pair (disambiguation), Pair (mathematics), Pair (parliamentary convention), Pair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pair: Rhymezone
  19. pair, pair (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pair: Free Dictionary
  22. pair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pair: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pair: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. pair: Legal dictionary
  3. pair: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pair (mathematics), Pair (ordered), pair: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pair: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PAIR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. pair: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pair: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pair: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pair: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. pair: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pair: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Pair, Pair: Gambling Glossary
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. pair: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See paired as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
noun:  One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
noun:  Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
noun:  Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
noun:  A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
noun:  (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
noun:  (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
noun:  (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
noun:  (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
noun:  (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
noun:  (slang) A pair of breasts
noun:  (slang) A pair of testicles
noun:  (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
noun:  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.
noun:  (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
noun:  (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 in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
verb:  (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
verb:  (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth
verb:  (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
verb:  (intransitive) To come together for mating.
verb:  (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
verb:  (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate.
noun:  A surname.

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