[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pair \pair\, v. i. imp.  p. p. paired; p. pr.  vb. n.
   pairing.
   1. to be joined in pairs; to couple; to mate, as for
      breeding.
      1913 webster

   2. to suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
      1913 webster

            my heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
                                                  --rowe.
      1913 webster

   3. same as to pair off. see phrase below.
      1913 webster

   to pair off, to separate from a group in pairs or couples;
      specif. parliamentary cant, to agree with one of the
      opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on
      specified questions or issues. see pair, n., 6.
      1913 webster
see also:
paired pairing to pair off pair 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pairing \pair"ing\, n. see pair, v. i.
   1. the act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or
      couples.
      1913 webster

   2. see to pair off, under pair, v. i.
      1913 webster

   pairing time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
      1913 webster
see also:
pair to pair off pairing time 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pairing
     n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
          purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
          mating of some species occurs only in the spring" syn:
          coupling, mating, conjugation, union, sexual
          union
     2: the act of grouping things or people in pairs
see also:
coupling mating conjugation union sexual union 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 moby thesaurus words for "pairing":
   janus, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, ambiguity,
   ambivalence, articulation, biformity, bifurcation, bond,
   bracketing, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation,
   concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration,
   conjugation, conjunction, connection, convergence, copulation,
   coupling, dichotomy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism,
   duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality,
   gathering, halving, hookup, intercommunication, intercourse,
   interlinking, irony, joinder, joining, jointure, junction,
   knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger,
   merging, polarity, splice, symbiosis, tie, tie-in, tie-up,
   twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unification, union, yoking

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