Two people, especially sports players, actors, or musicians, who are working together as a pair can be referred to as a pairing. In first place we now find the Belgian pairing of Nancy Feber and Laurence Courtois. = pair
a method by which subjects are selected so that two subjects with similar characteristics (for example, weight, smoking habits) are assigned to a set, but one receives Treatment A and the other receives Treatment B
Members of Congress who are going to be absent for an important vote will often "pair" with another member who would have voted for the opposite side, on matters where a two-thirds' majority is required, two members in the affirmative pair with one in the negative Pairing is recorded in the Congressional ~Record but is not included in the voting results A "live" part of a live pair occurs when a paired member is on the floor and votes "present " House rules provide guidelines for pairing The Senate considers the practice a voluntary arrangement among Senators and the "live" pair is counted for purposes of deter mining whether a quorum is present and business may be conducted
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"
The finishing operation in which individual socks are inspected and made into pairs prior to folding and packaging