pair vs pare vs pear
Definitions
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- arrange in pairs
noun
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- two items of the same kind
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
Examples
Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at ￡1 million.
Definitions
verb
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- strip the skin off
- cut small bits or pare shavings from
Examples
One was apparently faulty and the other did not have a battery.
Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris.
Definitions
noun
- Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
- sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
Examples
This contact of his had passed on to him a list of slightly disreputable jewelers and watchmakers in the area, on which I was rather impressed and a bit taken aback to find my appearance.
But Sexton found Nicks for an easy 31-yard score on fourth down with 4: 11 left to seal it, and Nicks set the receiving record with a 22-yard catch a little later from T.J. Yates, making his first appearance in relief from a broken ankle suffered in September against Virginia Tech. Newspaper Home Delivery - Subscribe Today
He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
