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paired

paired \paired\ (p[^a]rd), adj.

  1. Organized into compatible pairs; -- used of gloves, socks, etc. See pair[1], v. t.

    Syn: mated.

  2. (Botany) Growing in pairs on either side of a stem; -- of leaves etc. alternate

    Syn: opposite.

  3. Mated sexually.

Wiktionary
paired

vb. (en-past of: pair)

WordNet
paired
  1. adj. used of gloves, socks, etc. [syn: mated]

  2. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves" [syn: opposite] [ant: alternate]

  3. mated sexually

Usage examples of "paired".

Spiraling pairs of cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine: we know these are instructions for growth, for the development of life, all coded in sequences of paired elements.

He had a tolerably large escort: two hundred Hebrian arquebusiers and swordsmen and eighty heavy cavalry armed with lances and paired matchlock pistols.

She and I paired in all the parties and rags that our little clique organized, and all went well until my last term was half-way through, when I realized that, still a year and a half short of getting the diploma and turning out as a fully-fledged dental surgeon, I had to give it all up and trust to a vague and most unpromising future to bring me and my Princess together again.

And so while he paired off with Miss Sedley, and Jos squeezed through the gate into the gardens with Rebecca at his side, honest Dobbin contented himself by giving an arm to the shawls, and by paying at the door for the whole party.

Once he commanded the more subtle landscape of his delicate, inner senses, he endured testing of more punishing exactitude, when self-trust had been paired with live danger.

The partridges were paired, the rooks were well on with their nests, and the meadows were full of shimmering grey flocks of fieldfares on their way north.

Winken, Blinken, Tod, and Nod paired up and begat eight further moldies: Stanky, Panky, Grogan, Flibbertigibbet, Dik, Dawna, Nerf, and Moana.

Native ability paired with an accelerated Mayanabi training from her youth now made Elder Hennin a formidable adversary.

Delia had the night shift, where she was paired with Roy Joyce, a fellow who raised sugar beets over in the valley and came out for the lambing season every year.

The voice came closer, and Merissa paired it with a man who looked to be in his early thirties.

The monitor to one side glowed to life, presenting a series of Xs in order-the polar view of paired huiran s in metap chromosome i hase of the mitotic process.

As a rule, Poss or Binjie, perhaps both, were in attendance to escort Miss Harriott, with the result that Hugh and Mary found themselves paired off to ride home together.

The massive wall rose like an outcrop of living rock and the windows of the rekin within were paired like watchful eyes.

Among the minority of adult male mammals that do offer their offspring paternal care are polygynous male zebras and gorillas with harems of females, male gibbons paired off with females as solitary couples, and saddleback tamarin monkeys, of which two adult males are kept as a harem by one polyan-drous adult female.

Gravitational waves laid hold of the tachyons which sprang into being, paired with tardyons, and formed them into a beam, and modulated it.