English Dictionary

pair

IPA（発音記号）

/pɛə(ɹ)/

名詞

くだけた表現 俗語 オーストラリア英語 古語

Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. / One of the constituent items that make up a pair. / Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

日本語の意味

２つで構成される組、一対、ペア / 組み合わせられた２つのうちの一方 / 恋愛、友情、またはパートナーシップなどの関係にある二人

She found a perfect pair of vintage teacups at the flea market.

彼女はフリーマーケットでぴったり揃った一対のビンテージのティーカップを見つけた。

意味（1）

Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

意味（2）

One of the constituent items that make up a pair.

[S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.

意味（3）

Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

Spouses should make a great pair.

意味（4）

Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)

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

意味（5）

A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

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

They turned a pair to end the fifth.

意味（9）

(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams

The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.

意味（10）

(rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.

意味（11）

(slang) A pair of breasts

She's got a gorgeous pair.

意味（12）

(slang) A pair of testicles

Grow a pair, mate.

意味（13）

(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.

意味（14）

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.

There were two pairs on the final vote.

意味（15）

(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.

Thou lieſt; I ha’ nothing buy my ſkin, / And my cloaths; my ſword here, and my ſelf; / Two Crowns in my pocket; two pair of Cards; / And three falſe Dice: I can ſwim like a fiſh / Raſcal, nothing to hinder me.

意味（16）

(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.

pairs （ plural ）

pair （ archaic dialectal plural ）