Suit vs. Pair

Suitnoun

A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

Suitnoun

(by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.

Suitnoun

A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

Suitnoun

A full set of armour.

Suitnoun

(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

Suitnoun

The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

Suitnoun

Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

Suitnoun

(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

Suitnoun

The full set of sails required for a ship.

Suitnoun

(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.

Suitnoun

(obsolete) Regular order; succession.

Suitnoun

(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

Suitnoun

(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

Suitverb

(transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

Suitverb

To be suitable or apt for one's image.

Suitverb

(transitive)To be appropriate or apt for.

Suitverb

To dress; to clothe.

Suitverb

To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

Suitverb

(intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)

Suitnoun

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

Suitnoun

The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

Suitnoun

The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

Suitnoun

The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.

Suitnoun

That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; - often written suite, and pronounced swēt.

Suitnoun

Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; - often written suite, and pronounced swēt.

Suitnoun

A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes; a three-piece business suit.

Suitnoun

One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; - each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as, hearts were her long suit.

Suitnoun

Regular order; succession.

Suitnoun

Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;

Suitverb

To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.

Suitverb

To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

Suitverb

To dress; to clothe.

Suitverb

To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Suitverb

To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; - usually followed by with or to.

Suitnoun

a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;

Suitnoun

a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;

Suitnoun

playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color;

Suitnoun

a businessman dressed in a business suit;

Suitnoun

a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage);

Suitnoun

a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank

Suitverb

be agreeable or acceptable to;

Suitverb

be agreeable or acceptable;

Suitverb

accord or comport with;

Suitverb

enhance the appearance of;

Suitnoun

a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt

Suitnoun

a set of clothes to be worn for a particular activity

Suitnoun

a complete set of pieces of armour for covering the whole body

Suitnoun

a high-ranking executive in an organization, typically one regarded as exercising influence in an impersonal way

Suitnoun

any of the sets into which a pack of playing cards is divided (in conventional packs comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs).

Suitnoun

a lawsuit.

Suitnoun

the process of trying to win a woman's affection with a view to marriage

Suitnoun

a petition or entreaty made to a person in authority

Suitnoun

a complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars

Suitverb

be convenient for or acceptable to

Suitverb

act entirely according to one's own wishes (often used to express the speaker's annoyance)

Suitverb

adapt something to

Suitverb

enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone)

Suitverb

put on clothes, especially for a particular activity

Pairnoun

Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

Pairnoun

Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.

Pairnoun

Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only)

Pairnoun

A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

Pairnoun

(cards) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

Pairnoun

(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match

Pairnoun

A double play, two outs recorded in one play

Pairnoun

A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams

Pairnoun

(slang) A pair of breasts

Pairnoun

The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.

Pairnoun

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.

Pairnoun

(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.

Pairnoun

(kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.

Pairverb

(transitive) To group into sets of two.

Pairverb

(transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.

Pairverb

To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

Pairverb

(intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

Pairverb

(computing) to form wireless connection between to devices

Pairnoun

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.]

Pairnoun

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.

Pairnoun

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

Pairnoun

A married couple; a man and wife.

Pairnoun

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

Pairnoun

Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question (in order, for example, to allow the members to be absent during the vote without affecting the outcome of the vote), or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.

Pairnoun

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

Pairverb

To be joined in pairs; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

Pairverb

To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

Pairverb

Same as To pair off. See phrase below.

Pairverb

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.

Pairverb

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

Pairverb

To impair.

Pairnoun

a set of two similar things considered as a unit

Pairnoun

two items of the same kind

Pairnoun

two people considered as a unit

Pairnoun

a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value

Pairverb

form a pair or pairs;

Pairverb

bring two objects, ideas, or people together;

Pairverb

occur in pairs

Pairverb

arrange in pairs;

Pairverb

make love;