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pairing

pairing noun: the combination or union of two things. Also the present participle and gerund of pair.

Noun

pairing (countable and uncountable, plural pairings)

  1. The combination or union of two things.
    • The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.
    • In the past, quite some studies have shown that educational hypogamous marriages are more likely to dissolve than marriages with other educational pairings (see Schwartz and Han 2014 for a review).2017 November 21, Lindsay Theunis, Christine Schnor, Didier Willaert, Jan Van Bavel, “His and Her Education and Marital Dissolution: Adding a Contextual Dimension”, in European Journal of Population...
  2. An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.

Also used as

pairing is also the present participle and gerund of pair.

pairing meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

pairing in Tamil

ஜோடித் தொகுப்பு

pairing in Urdu

جوڑی سازی

pairing in Bengali

জুটি বাঁধা

pairing in Malayalam

ജോടിയാക്കൽ
More languagesFewer languages
pairing in Kannada
ಜೋಡಣೆ
pairing in Punjabi
ਪੇਅਰਿੰਗ, ਜੋਡ਼ੀਬੰਦੀ
pairing in Gujarati
જોડી
pairing in Nepali
जोडीकरण

Forms of pairing

pluralpairings

Words formed from pairing

Phrases with pairing

Words that rhyme with pairing

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about pairing

What does pairing mean?
Pairing means the combination or union of two things.
What is pairing in Tamil?
Pairing in Tamil is ஜோடித் தொகுப்பு. See Pairing meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pairing?
Pairing is a noun.
What is the plural of pairing?
The plural of pairing is pairings.

Words near pairing in the dictionary

  1. pairedness
  2. pairer
  3. pairers
  4. paires
  5. pairforming
  6. pairing
  7. pairing and sharing
  8. pairing energies
  9. pairing energy
  10. pairing function
  11. pairing functions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pairing (page history and authors); pairing (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pairing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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