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2. Verb. (third-person singular of pair) ¹

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Definition of Pairs

1. pair [v] - See also: pair

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pairs

Literary usage of Pairs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1908)
"Since, then, two reciprocal salt-pairs constitute only three 1 A very useful ... The investigation of the equilibria between reciprocal salt-pairs alone ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The first dry-core paper cables contained 50 pairs of wires No. 18, B. & SG in size (0.0403 inches in diameter). By 1891, the use of wires No. ..."

3. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Prepared by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Court of Chancery, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, England Sovereign (1272-1307 : Edward I) (1901)
"Bartholomew Jake, Thedens Orlane, Lambert Reyner, and James Oly ver, merchants of Florence, 60 by 3 pairs of letters. Weimar de Essex, citizen and merchant ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Planes of fission generally parallel producing pairs or short or long chains. Genus 1. ... Cells normally in pairs, surrounded by a capsule. Genus 2. ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"4 in. long, the lateral ones 2-3 pairs, elliptical, unequal at the base, ... 4^8 in. long with 2-4 pairs of Ifts., the Ifts. oval or slightly ..."

6. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"Congruence of parallel point pairs. The figure consisting of two distinct ... We consider either the two ordered* point pairs AB and BA or the point pair AB ..."

7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"In one case three perfect pairs (/'. e., in which both mesenteries reach the oesophagus) and two half-pairs of complete mesenteries radiate from one ..."

8. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Lvs. leathery, rounded or cordate at base, notched at tip: fr. mostly in pairs, globular, 5-6 lines thick, usually warty. Austral., where it throws out ..."

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