Phrase Hound found 81 phrases and 15 compound words that contain pairs. The most common are listed below. Open pairs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 81
- two pairsAlternative form of two pair: A hand which contains two pairs.
- base pairsplural of base pair: A set of two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected with hydrogen bonds.
- pairs of colorsplural of pair of colors: A national flag and a regimental flag when carried together.
- pairs of handsplural of pair of hands: A person, seen as a source of assistance or responsibility for something.
- pairs of pantsplural of pair of pants: A single garment that covers one's legs individually with sleeves, and also covers the pelvis.
- pairs of coloursplural of pair of colours: The commission of an ensign in the infantry or a cornet in the cavalry; an ensigncy or cornetcy.
- pairs and sharesthird-person singular simple present indicative of pair and share: To form pairs to compare each other's answers to an exercise.
- au pairsplural of au pair: On a working basis by which work done by one party is rewarded by benefits (especially board and lodging) rather than by monetary remuneration.
- Cooper pairsplural of Cooper pair: A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
- key pairsplural of key pair: A public key and its associated private key (in public-key cryptography).
- minimal pairsplural of minimal pair: A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.
- ordered pairsplural of ordered pair: An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or ⟨a,b⟩.
- pairs of glassesplural of pair of glasses: A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
- lone pairsplural of lone pair: A pair of electrons in the valence shell of an atom that does not participate in bonding.
- Lax pairsplural of Lax pair: In the theory of integrable systems, a pair of time-dependent matrices or operators that satisfy a corresponding differential equation, called the Lax equation.
- pairs of underwearplural of pair of underwear: An item of clothing that is worn under one's trousers or pants.
- surrogate pairsplural of surrogate pair: The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the supplementary character's code point.
- conjugate acid-base pairsplural of conjugate acid-base pair: An acid and a base which differ by a single proton; a pair of molecular compounds consisting of a conjugate acid and a conjugate base.
- coxless pairsplural of coxless pair: A boat, used in competitive rowing, having two rowers, each with a single oar
- megabase pairsplural of megabase pair: One million base pairs in succession (used as a measure of the size of a nucleic acid or a gene).
- alpha pairsplural of alpha pair: The dominant breeding pair in a pack of animals.
- bottom pairsplural of bottom pair: A pair consisting of one hole card and the lowest-ranking community card.
- Church pairsplural of Church pair: A Church encoding of the 2-tuple type.
- force pairsplural of force pair: Two forces acting at the same point with equal magnitude but opposite direction, resulting from Newton's third law ("every action has an equal and opposite reaction").
- kernel pairsplural of kernel pair: A couple of morphisms which constitute the pullback of a given morphism along itself.
Compound words 15
- despairsthird-person singular simple present indicative of despair: To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- basepairsplural of basepair: A set of two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected with hydrogen bonds.
- contrapairsplural of contrapair: A pair of objects, one of which is the opposite or mirror-image of the other
- subpairsplural of subpair: A pair of subgroups
- dispairsthird-person singular simple present indicative of dispair: To separate (a pair).
- eigenpairsplural of eigenpair: The mathematical pair of an eigenvector (ẕ), and its associated eigenvalue (λ). This is written as (λ,ẕ)
- keypairsplural of keypair: A public key and its associated private key (in public-key cryptography).
- mispairsthird-person singular simple present indicative of mispair: To pair incorrectly; to mismatch in twos.
- orthopairsplural of orthopair: A pair of orthogonal or disjoint subsets (of a given universe)
- overpairsplural of overpair: A pocket pair of a higher rank than the community cards on the board.