(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.]
(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.
(n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
(n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
(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.
(n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
(v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
(v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
(v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
(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. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
(v. t.) To impair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(4) This value is about 30 times higher than the association constant for guanine-cytosine base pair formation under the same experimental conditions.
(5) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(6) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(9) Delta roc, which extends from base pairs 41883 to 43825, overlaps the nin5 deletion, which extend from base pairs 40501 to 43306.
(10) In all cases, endocrine cells immunoreactive to only one of the paired antisera were detected except for anti-glucagon and anti-glucagon-like peptide 1, which always immunostained the same cells.
(11) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(12) Benzaldehyde's in cherries and cherrystones and amaretto, so it's immediately a base to pair things with."
(13) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(14) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(15) The distribution of the amino acid pairs, i, i + 1 in alpha-helical configurations does not differ from the random pairing.
(16) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(17) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
(18) Whole gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in Ringer's solution enriched with H2-17O; the paired contralateral gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in a similar solution enriched with deuterons, as well.
(19) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(20) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
Pare
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
(v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
(v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the dynamics of the changes occurring in the curve of restoration of the test response amplitude in the thalamo-cortical fibers to the pared stimulation of the medial lemniscus with various actions on the somatosensory ared.
(2) I loved that attention to detail, everything pared down to the bone."
(3) However, the announcements made at the tail-end of the Labour administrations have been pared back or delayed as ministers attempt to balance public spending cuts with infrastructure improvements.
(4) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
(5) Canada and Australia feel the squeeze in wake of Chinese economic slowdown Read more Japan’s Nikkei brushed aside an unexpected drop in the country’s industrial output to close up 2.7%, paring losses for the quarter to 14.1%, its deepest since 2010.
(6) It has not passed audit since 1994 and makes Britain's Ministry of Defence seem a haven of cheese-paring efficiency .
(7) These radical reactions should be considered when using human nail parings to estimate accidental exposure to ionizing radiation.
(8) The fact markets pared back this bounce soon after the announcement may in some respects reflect growing market concern that central banks are delving into a tit-for-tat currency devaluation war,” said Angus Nicholson at the online trading firm IG in Melbourne.
(9) Her first BBC series since her drug revelations and split from Charles Saatchi, it promises a “new pared-down approach to cooking and eating”.
(10) The NHS has pared back so much over the last 20 years, it now carries almost no flab.
(11) The cure rate was 84% for sheep that were only footbathed, 72% for those foot pared and footbathed, 72% for those foot pared, footbathed and given penicillin, and 88% for those vaccinated and footbathed.
(12) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(13) The work and pensions secretary believes that restricting child benefit, which could save £1bn a year, could help Osborne achieve his cuts rather than “cheese paring” all benefits.
(14) The assumption that problem-oriented records help teach critical thinking was tested by co-paring clinical recordings and case study data for a group of beginning nursing students who were taught problem-oriented charting with a group who were taught traditional charting.
(15) It was assumed that the pared-down track programme compared with Beijing, stripped of most of the meaningful endurance events, might work to Great Britain's disadvantage, but the opposite appears to be the case.
(16) It is not possible that doing nothing will be cheaper than doing something; that budget cuts, pared-down services and postcode lotteries will yield anything but higher costs and more human misery.
(17) However, when the upstream sequence was pared down to base number -118, the regulatory response to O2, H2, and Ni levels was negated.
(18) Thus, it is the presence of noisy, incoherent dot motion, rather than brief lifetimes, that causes such poor performance on the stimulus of Newsome and Pare (1988).
(19) But while the Bank has only slightly pared back its growth forecasts since its last Inflation Report in August, the same can’t be said of inflation.
(20) The director of such high-risk projects as the National Theatre's runaway hit War Horse and its more recent smash, The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night-Time , as well as the dark, pared-down Port , which recently opened at the Lyttelton, she has never knowingly opted for a theatrical safe bet.