pair Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | pair Explications et Prononciations

Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
1. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.

Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum).

a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans ‎

(card games) A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.

(baseball) INF A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

SLA A pair of breasts.

(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.

VT To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.

(politics) SLA To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

VI To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

OBS To impair.

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- If you raise, you're probably going to force players with second pair or a gut shot to fold, so your best option is to call.
- Segments with more than 25 pairs of veins; indusium minute, ciliate. soon disappearing; a linear-attenuate brown aerophore present at base of each pinna 16.
- The eight on the turn was another undercard to her pair of nines ‎

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