PAIRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pairing mean? 

• PAIRING (noun)
  The noun PAIRING has 2 senses:

1. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

2. the act of grouping things or people in pairs

  Familiarity information: PAIRING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAIRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union

Context example:

the mating of some species occurs only in the spring

Hypernyms ("pairing" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pairing"):

assortative mating (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)

disassortative mating (mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating)

cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)

inbreeding (the act of mating closely related individuals)

service; servicing (the act of mating by male animals)

Derivation:

pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of grouping things or people in pairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pairing" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pairing"):

buddy system (a cooperative practice of pairing two or more people together for mutual assistance or safety (especially in recreational swimming))

match-up; matchup (the pairing of people or things as for comparison or competition)

Derivation:

pair (form a pair or pairs)

 Context examples 

Based on the disulfide pairing of their characteristic six cysteine residues, they are divided into ALPHA-DEFENSINS and BETA-DEFENSINS.

(Defensins, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A class that serves to allow many to many relationships between Designation and ClassSchemeClassSchemeItem, providing uniqueness to the CS/CSI pairing to an Designation.

(Designation Class Scheme Item, NCI Thesaurus)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to pairing events.

(Pairing Events Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Nonclinical pairing records for the fertility component of a study.

(Pairing Events Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

If you are not interested in pairing up romantically, you can use this exalted new moon for furthering business collaborations and partnerships.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This protein plays a role in chromosome pairing during meiosis, repair of DNA double-strand breaks and cell cycle checkpoint regulation.

(Fanconi Anemia Group D2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes Fanconi anemia group D2 protein, plays a role in the mediation of homolog pairing in meiosis, cell cycle checkpoint regulation and the modulation of DNA repair.

(FANCD2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A class that serves to allow many to many relationships between Definitions and ClassSchemeClassSchemeItem, providing uniqueness to the CS/CSI pairing to a definition.

(Definition Class Scheme Item, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers first conditioned rats to fear a tone by pairing it with shocks.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

It involves the pairing of the machine used to deliver external beam radiaotherapy with a CT scanner.

(CT on Rails, NCI Thesaurus)