noun

• 1An arrangement or match resulting from organizing or forming people or things into pairs.

  ‘the dancers made a fine pairing’

  More example sentences

  • ‘As to the rest I am prepared to let you chose the order and the pairings amongst yourselves.’
  • ‘What happens to the relationship between aunt/uncle and nephew/niece pairings?’
  • ‘Two weeks earlier Claudia had sent out the randomised pairings via e-mail and set the limit to £10 per gift.’
  • ‘The coverage used alternating pairings of commentators from around the world.’
  • ‘There are loads more possible pairings and scenarios, far too many to mention here.’
  • ‘Some of the most popular pairings pitted contrasting advantages and disadvantages against one another.’
  • ‘Other pairings of seemingly identical prints prove more revealing of Morris's working process.’
  • ‘Yet there's some musical pairings that are so bad they're good.’
  • ‘Then, in the same number of matches, the new ball was passed around 10 different pairings.’
  • ‘The waiter paired our entrées with special-entrée wine pairings.’
  • ‘The former two pairings provide one semi-final while the latter pairings provide the other semi-final.’
  • ‘These pairings are not contradictory but complementary; they are aspects of the same overarching reality.’
  • ‘I will have to work my pairings in a way that everybody will have a chance to play in the first four rounds.’
  • ‘In other words, generational differences may have still occurred in these types of age pairings.’
  • ‘When new winter beers come in, pair them with menu items and promote pairings to your clientele.’
  • ‘The point is well taken, but often the pairings seem linked by no more than chance similarities of design.’
  • ‘This book follows these traditional pairings, devoting separate chapters to each pair.’
  • ‘It's a foundation often used for wine pairing that serves other beverage pairings as well.’
  • ‘Embarked upon to encourage discourse between past and present, the idea throws up some interesting pairings.’
  • ‘More inspired and unpredictable pairings came in a carpaccio of venison.’

  Synonyms

  marriage, betrothal, relationship, partnership, union, pairing, alliance, compact, contract, affiliation, combination

  1. 1.1The action of pairing things or people.
     ‘the pairing of food and wine’
     More example sentences

     • ‘the step occurs very late in meiosis, well after the time of chromosome pairing’
     • ‘Because translocations alter the normal patterns of chromosome pairing and recombination, this technique is useful only for placing genes to a chromosome arm.’
     • ‘Hard and fast rules of wine and food pairing may be a thing of the past, but a few basic matchmaking ‘do's’ make sense and serve only to enhance the dining experience.’
     • ‘The how-to's of successful pairing of beer with food while driving sales were uncovered in a workshop hosted by beer expert and Cheers columnist Stephen Beaumont.’
     • ‘The goal of pairing food and wine is for the sum to be greater than the parts, to create a seamless integration of aroma and flavour.’
     • ‘During spore formation in the hybrid, normal pairing of chromosomes can take place, and the chromosomes can be distributed equally to the spores.’
     • ‘In meiosis, the normal chromosome and the inverted chromosome will form a loop to allow pairing of specific DNA sequences.’
     • ‘This may have been due to pairing and exchange of homologous segments on homeologous chromosomes.’
     • ‘The winners' mid-field pairing of William Ryan and Bobby Daly were always to the fore, winning a lot of possession and using it well, the forwards supplied with good ball; the backs helped out also.’
     • ‘The game was becoming predictable, so Pardew introduced the unpredictable gifts of Teddy Sheringham alongside Zamora, indicating that the manager is still undecided about his ideal front pairing.’
     • ‘Homage Playwright James Harkness has been developing this script in a joint project with Buddies in Bad Times and the Shaw Festival, and that pairing alone should make this of interest.’
     • ‘Father and son pairing of Mark and Matt Burrows helped Pocklington to a 6-3 home win over RI Thursday ‘B’ in Men's Two.’
     • ‘Their defeat owed much to the magnificent central midfield pairing of Scholes and Nicky Butt, who were the heart of the side.’
     • ‘The husband wife pairing of Asha and Lord Burman gave us so many great songs in the 70s like Teesri Manzil, Chura Liya, etc.’
     • ‘I felt somewhat outside of things - it definitely felt like there was a lot of coupling or pairing of conversations going on, and I felt like I wasn't really welcome in many of them.’
     • ‘Their relationship continues to be one of fashion's most successful pairings of designer and backer.’
     • ‘On top of that, at long last you see the pairings of Ripley and Jack Tripper onscreen, as well Eve and Lilith!’
     • ‘They treated bivalent and multivalent pairings as two totally different meiotic processes.’
     • ‘In this condition, all differences between frequent and infrequent pairings disappeared.’
     • ‘In this way, nonnative pairings may be designed to have weaker interactions than native pairings.’
     • ‘The pairings for the first round will be made by means of an open draw.’