Synonym: both, couple, duo, set, team, two. Similar words: impair, repair, a pair of, painter, campaign, paintwork, air, hair. Meaning: [per /peə] 
n. 1. a set of two similar things considered as a unit 2. two items of the same kind 3. two people considered as a unit 4. a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value. v. 1. form a pair or pairs 2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together 3. occur in pairs 4. arrange in pairs 5. make love.
n. 1. a set of two similar things considered as a unit 2. two items of the same kind 3. two people considered as a unit 4. a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value. v. 1. form a pair or pairs 2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together 3. occur in pairs 4. arrange in pairs 5. make love. 1) It is not every couple that is a pair. 
2) Every couple is not a pair.
3) I've got a pair of aces.
4) This pair of shoes fits me well.
5) He always wears the oily old pair of jeans.
6) Draw a pair of parallel lines.
7) Not all the gloves would pair up.
8) I put on a new pair of nylon socks.
9) He wore a pair of black trousers.
10) Paula's wearing a very snazzy pair of shoes!
11) Always my a pair comity is constant.
12) That pair are always quarreling.
13) She has lost a pair of stockings.
14) We've got a German au pair for six months.
15) Answer one question in each pair.
16) Mother bought her a pair of tennis shoes.
17) The vase is one of a matching pair.
18) The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.
19) She bought a pair of woollen hose yesterday.
20) He wears a pair of shorts.
21) Mother bought me a pair of trousers.
22) I can't find a matching pair of socks.
23) The pair were in sombre mood.
24) This pair of scales is not in equilibrium.
25) She bought a new pair of tights.
26) Just pair those people for the dance.
27) I've lost a pair of spectacles.
28) Xiao Li has made a pair of cottonpadded trousers for a retired worker.
29) She took a pair of scissors and cut the string.
30) The pair have often been known to abandon their script and begin ad libbing.