Pair

Definition

pair /peǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] တစ္ရန္။ တစ္စံု။ a pair of gloves/ shoes/ socks/ earrings ❍ a huge pair of eyes. ၂။ [C] (ႏွစ္ဖက္၊ ႏွစ္ပိုင္း ေပါင္းစပ္ထားေသာအရာ) တစ္ခု။ a pair of binoculars/ tights/ scissors/ under pants ❍ I've broken my glasses—I'll have to buy a new pair. ၃။ [pl v ] စံုတြဲ။ (အေၾကာင္းတစ္ရပ္ရပ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေနသူ) ႏွစ္ေယာက္။ the happy pair (ie the newly married couple) ❍ ( infml ) You've behaved very badly, the pair of you! ၄။ [CGp] (တိရစၧာန္ ဖိုမ) တစ္စံု၊ တစ္တြဲ၊ ေမာင္ႏွံ။ a pair of swans nesting by the river. ၅။ [C] ရထားတြင္ ယွဥ္ကေသာ ျမင္း ႏွစ္ေကာင္။ a coach and pair. See also AU PAIR v ၁။ ~ A with B; ~ A and B (together) တြဲသည္။ be paired with sb in a doubles match. ၂။ (တိရစၧာန္မ်ား) ဖိုမ ေမာင္ႏွံ တြဲဖက္မိသည္။ ❏ in pairs [ IDM ] စံုလိုက္။ These earrings are only sold in pairs. ❏ pair (sb/ sth) off (with sb) [ PHRV ] ဒြယံဒြယံ ခ်ိတ္မိသည္၊ တြဲသည္။ The students had all paired off by the end of term. ❍ She's always trying to pair her friends off with each other. ❏ pair up (with sb) [ PHRV ] (အလုပ္လုပ္ရန္၊ ကစားရန္ စသည္) ႏွစ္ေယာက္တစ္တြဲ တြဲသည္။

Examples

1. Those boots cost fifty pounds a pair.
2. [pair of] : I need a pair of earrings to go with this outfit.
3. A pair of beautiful blue eyes
4. A pair of shoes/socks/gloves
5. [the pair for/to something] : I can’t find the pair for this sock.
6. My glasses are getting old and I probably need a new pair.
7. [pair of] : A pair of scissors/binoculars/pliers
8. A pair of trousers/pants/tights
9. The pair became good friends.
10. [pair of] : Several pairs of identical twins
11. A pair of lovers
12. [pair of] : Two pairs of guards stood just inside the main entrance to the museum.
13. [pair of] : A pair of sparrows had made a nest in the hedge.
14. A breeding pair of tropical fish
15. A carriage and pair