'Pairing' definitions:
Definition of 'pairing'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
noun
The act of grouping things or people in pairs
Definition of 'Pairing'
From: GCIDE
- Pairing \Pair"ing\, n. [See Pair, v. i.]
- 1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. [1913 Webster]
- 2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i. [1913 Webster]
- Pairing time, the time when birds or other animals pair. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pairing'
From: GCIDE
- Pair \Pair\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paired; p. pr. & vb. n. Pairing.]
- 1. To be joined in pairs; to couple; to mate, as for breeding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. [1913 Webster]
- My heart was made to fit and pair with thine. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Same as To pair off. See phrase below. [1913 Webster]
- To pair off, to separate from a group in pairs or couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues. See Pair, n., 6. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pairing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- articulation,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- bond,
- bracketing,
- clustering,
- combination,
- communication,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- convergence,
- copulation,
- coupling,
- dichotomy,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocality,
- gathering,
- halving,
- hookup,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- irony,
- Janus,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- knotting,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- marriage,
- meeting,
- merger,
- merging,
- polarity,
- splice,
- symbiosis,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- unification,
- union,
- yoking
Words containing 'Pairing'
- Pair,
- Paired,
- To pair off,
- pair off,
- A pair of bellows,
- Pair of stairs,
- Pair production,
- Pair royal,
- Paired fins,
- Pairing time,
- Pairs Royal,
- Post and pair,
- Sliding pair,
- Thermoelectric pair,
- Turning pair,
- Twisting pair,
- au pair,
- base pair,
- higher pair,
- lower pair,
- pair creation,
- pair formation,
- pair of eyeglasses,
- pair of pincers,
- pair of pliers,
- pair of scissors,
- pair of tongs,
- pair of tweezers,
- pair of virginals,
- au pair girl