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# pairing

noun (a pairing, pairings); verb form (pairing — present participle of «pair»)

«pairing» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A pairing is two people or things put together, as a pair or a team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#m1)
2. Pairing is the act of putting things into pairs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#m2)
3. (technology) Pairing is connecting two devices, such as headphones and a phone, by Bluetooth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#m3)

### In the lessons

In school, pairing pupils is how teachers make pair-work partners. In maths, pairing numbers helps add quickly (1+9, 2+8) and pairing objects shows if a number is odd or even. In sport a pairing is a doubles team. In cooking, food pairings like cheese and apple go well together. Phrases: «a good pairing», «pairing up», «Bluetooth pairing».

### Examples

- The teacher announced the pairings for the science project. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#x1)
- Pairing the socks takes ages after washing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#x2)
- My headphones are pairing with my tablet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#x3)
- Cheese and apple is a tasty pairing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#x4)
- The tennis pairing won the doubles final. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#x5)
- Pairing 1 with 9 and 2 with 8 makes adding quick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/#x6)

### Note

From «pair» (two). Homophones of «pair»: «pear» (fruit), «pare» (to peel). In maths problems: if you can pair every object with no one left over, the number is even; if one is left over, it is odd. Pairing the numbers 1 to 10 into (1,10), (2,9) … gives 5 pairs of 11, so the sum is 55.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pairing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pairing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pairing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pairing.html) on Mova free.