(Australia, politics) 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.
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.
(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
(kinematics) 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.
If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
She's got a gorgeous pair.
The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
They turned a pair to end the fifth.
A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
Spouses should make a great pair.
I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.