Pair vs Peer - What's the difference?
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Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
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Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)
A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
(cards) A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
(baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
(slang) A pair of breasts
(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.
* Charles Dickens
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(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 .
To group into sets of two.
* Alexander Pope
To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
(politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
* Rowe
(computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
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To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
to come in sight; to appear.
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
* Dryden
* Isaac Taylor
# Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
* Milton
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
* Spenser
to make equal in rank.
(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
In intransitive terms the difference between peer and pair
is that peer is to look with difficulty, or as if searching for something while pair is to suit; to fit, as a counterpart.pair
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paire, from (etyl) .Noun
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- There were two pairs on the final vote.
- plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs
- Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
Synonyms
* two objects in a group: duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet * (pair of breasts) See alsoDerived terms
* on a pair * grow a pair * in pairs * king pair * pair-horse * pair-oar(ed) * pair production * pair skating * royal pair * strap on a pairVerb
(en verb)- Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
- The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
- My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
- 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.
Derived terms
* pairing * pair off * pair upEtymology 2
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----peer
English
(wikipedia peer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
- as if through a dungeon grate he peered
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
- He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
- So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
- See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In song he never had his peer .
- Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
- a peer of the realm
- a noble peer of mickle trust and power
- He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Verb
(en verb)- (Heylin)