How to pronounce pair in English

"A number of things resembling one another or belonging together; a set; as a pair or flight of stairs. """"A pair of beads."""" Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. """"Four pair of stairs."""" Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused except as to stairs.]"

"Two things of a kind similar in form suited to each other and intended to be used together; as a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes."

"Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as a pair of horses; a pair of oxen."

"A married couple; a man and wife."

"A single thing composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows."

"Two members of opposite parties or opinion as in a parliamentary body who mutually agree not to vote on a given question or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as there were two pairs on the final vote."

"In a mechanism two elements or bodies which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion."

"To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate as for breeding."

"To suit; to fit as a counterpart."

"Same as To pair off. See phrase below."

"To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together as things which belong together or which complement or are adapted to one another."

"To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions."

"To impair."