noun
- Any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero.
- usage: "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
- synonyms: whole number
Integer and Pair
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
- synonyms: brace
- Two items of the same kind.
- Two people considered as a unit.
- A poker hand with 2 cards of the same value.
verb
- Form a pair or pairs.
- usage: "The two old friends paired off"
- synonyms: pair off, partner off, couple
- Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.
- usage: "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
- Occur in pairs.
- synonyms: geminate
- Arrange in pairs.
- usage: "Pair these numbers"
- synonyms: geminate
- Engage in sexual intercourse.
- usage: "Birds mate in the Spring"
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- A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
- (n.) In a mechanism, two elements or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
- (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
- (v.i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
- (n.) 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; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
- (v.t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together or which complement or are adapted to one another.
- (v.i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
- (v.i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
- (n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
- (v.t.) To impair.
- (n.) A number of things resembling one another or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].
- (v.t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
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