Meaning of PAIRING
| Pronunciation: | | p'ering
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- [n] the act of grouping things or people in pairs
- [n] the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
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| | Synonyms: | | conjugation, coupling, mating, sexual union, union |
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| | See Also: | | assortative mating, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, disassortative mating, grouping, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, inbreeding, interbreeding, service, servicing, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pair"ing\, n. [See {Pair}, v. i.]
1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or
couples.
2. See {To pair off}, under {Pair}, v. i.
{Pairyng time}, the time when birds or other animals pair.
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| | Related Terms: | | agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, ambiguity, ambivalence, articulation, biformity, bifurcation, bond, bracketing, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, convergence, copulation, coupling, dichotomy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality, gathering, halving, hookup, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, irony, Janus, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, merging, polarity, splice, symbiosis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unification, union, yoking |
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