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1.nounTwo similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of."I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair."
2.nounTwo people in a relationship, partnership or friendship."Spouses should make a great pair."
3.nounUsed with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)"a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans"
4.nounA couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke."A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders."
5.nounA poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
6.nounA score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
7.nounA double play, two outs recorded in one play."They turned a pair to end the fifth."
8.nounA doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams"The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies."
9.nounA boat for two sweep rowers.
10.nounA pair of breasts"She's got a gorgeous pair."
11.nounThe exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
12.nounTwo 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."There were two pairs on the final vote."
13.nounA number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
14.noun(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.
15.nounA special place (for hiding or viewing)
16.nounA spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.
17.nounA reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered."We're running a special on turkey for Thanksgiving."
18.nounOne of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant."Today's special is our tuna melt on rye."
19.nounUnusual or exceptional episode of a series."Did you see the Christmas special?"
20.nounA special constable.
21.nounAnything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled."Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin."
22.nounAny unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
23.nounA correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
24.nounA dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
25.nounA light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
26.nounSomeone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
27.nounA physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
28.nounAny of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
29.nounAn organism that is specialized for a particular environment."The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub."
30.nounThe act or process of specializing.
31.nounThe area in which someone specializes.
32.nounThe adaptation of an organism to a specific environment, or adaptation of an organ to a particular function.
33.nounA proof, axiom, problem, or definition whose cases are completely covered by another, broader concept."A triangle is a specialization of a polygon to one with exactly three sides."
34.nounAn explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
35.nounAn act of specifying.
36.nounA person or thing that specifies.
37.nounA component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.
38.nounA pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
39.nounThe process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
40.nounThe act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
41.nounA conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
42.nounAn investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
43.nounThe act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
44.nounExamination by the eye; view.
45.nounPower of sight.
46.nounA card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
47.nounThe process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.