Synonyms of the word

pair

• n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• n. Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
• n. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale…
• n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
• n. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better…
• n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
• n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
• n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
• n. (slang) A pair of breasts.
• n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of…
• n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote…
• n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
• n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually…
• v. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
• v. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
• v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices.
• v. (obsolete) To impair.

arrange

• v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
• v. To put in order, to organize.
• v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
• v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

brace

• n. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
• n. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
• n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
• n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
• n. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• n. Harness; warlike preparation.
• n. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words…
• n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely…
• n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces,…
• n. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally;…
• n. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or…
• n. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
• v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
• v. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient…
• v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
• v. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
• v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
• v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
• v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

conjoin

• v. (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
• v. (transitive) To marry.
• v. (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate…
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
• v. (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.

copulate

• v. To engage in sexual intercourse.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
• adj. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

couple

• n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• n. (informal) A small number.
• n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic…
• n. (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel…
• n. (architecture) A couple-close.
• n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
• adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
• v. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
• v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

couplet

• n. (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
• n. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

deuce

• n. (card games) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
• n. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
• n. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
• n. The number two.
• n. (tennis) A tie in which one player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. A '32 Ford.
• n. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common…
• n. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
• n. (slang) A piece of excrement.
• n. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

distich

• n. (prosody) A couplet, a two line stanza making complete sense.
• n. Any couplet.
• adj. distichous.

duad

• n. A pair or couple.
• n. (mathematics) an unordered pair.
• n. (astrology) dwadasamsa.

duet

• n. (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce…
• n. (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
• n. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
• v. (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
• v. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
• v. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.

duo

• n. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
• n. Any pair of two people.
• n. Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.

dyad

• n. A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
• n. (music) any set of two different pitch classes.
• n. A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
• n. (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

gathering

• n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
• n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
• n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• v. present participle of gather.

geminate

• adj. Forming a pair.
• adj. (phonology) Of a consonant, pronounced longer and considered as being doubled.
• v. To arrange in pairs.
• v. To occur in pairs.
• n. (phonology) A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound.

join

• v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
• v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
• v. (transitive) To become a member of.
• v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• v. To unite in marriage.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
• v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
• n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
• n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

mate

• n. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• n. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address…
• n. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's…
• n. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
• n. (nautical) A first mate.
• n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
• n. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
• n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
• v. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate.
• v. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
• v. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
• v. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
• v. (transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
• v. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
• v. (transitive, aeronautics, space) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can…
• n. (chess) Short for checkmate.
• v. (intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate.
• v. To confuse; to confound.
• n. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
• n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea.

occur

• v. To happen or take place.
• v. To present or offer (itself).
• v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
• v. (sciences) To be present or found.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

span

• n. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
• n. Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
• n. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or…
• n. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
• n. (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope…
• n. (obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar…
• n. (mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something.
• v. To traverse the distance between.
• v. To cover or extend over an area or time period.
• v. To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
• v. (mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
• v. (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
• v. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
• v. (archaic, nonstandard) simple past tense of spin.

twain

• num. (dated) two.
• v. (transitive) To part in twain; divide; sunder.

twin

• n. Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who…
• n. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
• n. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
• n. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
• n. (crystallography) A twin crystal.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
• v. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different…
• v. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
• adj. double; dual; occurring as a matching pair.
• adj. forming a pair of twins.

two

• num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second.
• num. Describing a set or group with two components.
• n. The digit/figure 2.
• n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
• n. A child aged two.
• n. The playing cards featuring two pips.

twosome

• adj. Being or constituting a pair; two.
• adj. Twofold; double.
• adj. Performed by two individuals.
• n. A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
• n. A dance for two people.

unify

• v. (transitive) Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.
• v. (intransitive) Become one.

unite

• v. To come or bring together as one.
• n. (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King…

yoke

• n. Frame around the neck, and related senses.
• n. Pair of harnessed draught animals, and related senses.
• n. Extended uses and quantities.
• v. To link or to join.
• v. To unite, to connect.
• v. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
• n. Misspelling of yolk.