{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "pɛr" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/pair.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/pair.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/pair.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adj). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”).", "From Middle English pairen, peiren, shortened form of apeiren, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, empoirier, from Late Latin peiōrō." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.\n\nI couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.", "submean": [ "One of the constituent items that make up a pair.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.\nSpouses should make a great pair." }, { "mean": "Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)\na pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans" }, { "mean": "A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.\nA pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders." }, { "mean": "(card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand." }, { "mean": "(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.\nSynonyms: pair of spectacles, spectacles" }, { "mean": "(baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.\nThey turned a pair to end the fifth." }, { "mean": "(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams\nThe Pirates took a pair from the Phillies." }, { "mean": "(rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers." }, { "mean": "(slang) A pair of breasts\nShe's got a gorgeous pair." }, { "mean": "(slang) A pair of testicles\nGrow a pair, mate." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "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.\nThere were two pairs on the final vote." }, { "mean": "(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set." }, { "mean": "(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." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.\nThe wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party." }, { "mean": "(computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth\nIt was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To come together for mating." }, { "mean": "(politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "couple\n\n\nPoker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhigh card\n\npair\n\ntwo pair\n\nthree of a kind\n\nstraight\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nflush\n\nfull house\n\nfour of a kind\n\nstraight flush\n\nroyal flush" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.\na. 1376?, Sir Hugh Eglintoun (uncertain), transl., George Panton, editor, The “Gest Hystoriale” of the Destruction of Troy, N. Trübner & Co., translation of Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne, published 1869, page 117: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.Why endure this misery, and hurt yourself? / End this disease, my dear brother, / That pains you and impairs your sight.\n1625, Francis , “Of Innouations”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 140: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 \n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:'No faith so fast', quoth she, 'but flesh does pair'" }, { "mean": "(obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(two objects in a group): duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet; see also Thesaurus:duo", "(pair of breasts): See also Thesaurus:breasts" ], "kor": [ "", "" ] } } }