Meaning

• Noun

  1. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
  2. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
  3. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
  4. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
  5. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
  6. A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
  7. A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
  8. (informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
  9. (informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
  10. A boat for two sweep rowers.
  11. (slang) A pair of breasts
  12. (slang) A pair of testicles
  13. 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.
  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.
  15. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
  16. 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.

• Verb
• Verb