pairing

4 definitions found

pairing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pair \Pair\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paired; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Pairing.]
     1. To be joined in pairs; to couple; to mate, as for
        breeding.
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     2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
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              My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
                                                    --Rowe.
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     3. Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
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     To pair off, to separate from a group in pairs or couples;
        specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the
        opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on
        specified questions or issues. See Pair, n., 6.
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  Pairing \Pair"ing\, n. [See Pair, v. i.]
     1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or
        couples.
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     2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
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     Pairing time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
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pairing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pairing
      n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
           purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
           mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn:
           coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union,
           sexual union]
      2: the act of grouping things or people in pairs

pairing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "pairing":
     Janus, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, ambiguity,
     ambivalence, articulation, biformity, bifurcation, bond,
     bracketing, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation,
     concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration,
     conjugation, conjunction, connection, convergence, copulation,
     coupling, dichotomy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism,
     duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality,
     gathering, halving, hookup, intercommunication, intercourse,
     interlinking, irony, joinder, joining, jointure, junction,
     knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger,
     merging, polarity, splice, symbiosis, tie, tie-in, tie-up,
     twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unification, union, yoking