pairing
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- noun
- /ˈpɛərɪŋ/
- The young girls choose the most handsome men, and many of these pairings result in marriage.
- random pairings
- possible pairings
- book pairings
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Watch on YouTubeGood conversation, like good food, is often made delicious by pairing of contrasting elements.
- Good conversation, like good food, is often made delicious by pairing of contrasting elements.
- And for our pairing, remember, our food is highly acidic.
- Mark Fowler asks, what's your favorite cake ice cream pairing?
- But because of this weird pairing, they just had to stand for DJT.
Examples
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Good conversation, like good food, is often made delicious by pairing of contrasting elements.
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So there's a kind of pairing between these two things.
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I want to do a pairing with Buzz.
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How do you think about the the pairing between ideas and execution?
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So what we have is this pairing between simulations and text.
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Rather than random, these pairings happened in repeated ways that expressed continued concerns about color, history, and background.
Academic text (2003) -
All our pairings, whether married couples or singles, are by mutual consent.
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It's the pairings for the combat tomorrow in the palace enclosure.
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Complementing the chefs' creations will be wine pairings selected by a sophisticated wine-guy type.
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The chef recommended a perfect pairing of red wine with the steak dish.
Synonyms
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3.7
A pairing of teams, people, or things to compete and be compared
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2.3
The act of putting similar things together
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Producing two young at one birth or pairing two places like cities
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Etymology
The word pairing comes from pair, which comes from the old root par meaning 'two' or 'equal', just like a 'pair of shoes' is two things that go together. So pairing is the act of matching two items or people to work together or complement each other.