pairing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pairing has 2 senses

pairing(n = noun.act) conjugation, coupling, mating, sexual union, union - 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"

is a kind of sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice

has particulars: assortative mating, disassortative mating, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, inbreeding, service, servicing

Derived form verb pair₅

pairing(n = noun.act) Array - the act of grouping things or people in pairs; Array

is a kind of grouping

Derived form verb pair₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pairing, n. [See Pair, v. i.].

The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. [1913 Webster]
See To pair off, under Pair, v. i. [1913 Webster]

Pairing time, the time when birds or other animals pair.

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THESAURUS

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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