pairedadj.
/pɛːd/, U.S. /pɛ(ə)rd/ Associated together or arranged in a pair, or in pairs or twos; coupled. See also well-paired adj.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [adjective]
double1393
coupledc1440
conjugate1471
duplicate?a1475
jumellec1475
gemel1497
geminate1589
paired1595
fellowed1654
duplicatory1659
gemellous1697
dyadic1728
duplex1817
Siamese twins1829
parial1849
dyad1869
duadic1879
pairwise1913
duplicitous1985
1595 A. Golding tr. J. Hurault Politicke, Moral, & Martial Disc. ii. xiii. 334 Cato in his paired verses, setteth down the brideling of the tongue among the chiefest vertues.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Apparié, paired, coupled, matched.
1679 L. Hutchinson Order & Disorder ii. 21 We might from some learn chaste and constant love, Conjugal kindness of the paired Swans.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Wife of Bath in Wks. (1882–92) 408 To bed they went, the bridegroom and the bride. Was never such an ill-paired couple tied!
1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 54 Figures ill-pair'd, and Similes unlike.
1800 T. Hardwicke in Asiatick Researches 6 379 Stipules lateral, paired, ovate, acuminated.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 147 Leaf answers leaf upon the bough, And match the paired cotyledons.
?1870 P. M. Duncan Transformations Insects xvii. 459 During the next zoëal period the paired eyes..are formed.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xi. 215 These [appendages] arise..in the embryo as little paired buds.
1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 53 It was found that the paired drawers on the top have more repainting than any of the others.
2002 Derbyshire Life & Countryside Nov. 65/2 The roofs..were set off by tall paired stacks with a narrow tall arch separating them.
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paired-associate adj. Psychology (attributive) involving paired associates.
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1939 C. I. Hovland in Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. 24 466 In paired-associate learning..the associations are principally between the paired syllables.
1989 Brain 112 991 When B.M. was subjected to the paired-associate learning task, she showed no sign of covert recognition.
paired associates n. Psychology stimulus material presented in pairs to test the strength of associations set up between them at a subsequent presentation of one of the pair; a sample of such material.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of ideas > association of ideas > [noun] > connected idea > presented in pairs
paired associates1908
1908 E. L. Thorndike in Psychol. Rev. 15 134 The common inference..that half the effect of memorizing is lost in less than an hour and two thirds in a day is very far from holding true of memory for paired associates.
1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 85 212 Some are variants of such tasks as those for memory span..and paired-associates learning.
1993 Psychobiology 21 183 Rats were tested for their ability to learn a list of four paired associates (food paired with spatial locations).
paired association n. Psychology (the association of stimuli in) paired-associate learning.
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1922 K. Dunlap Elem. Sci. Psychol. xi. 236 School work in history, geography and similar subjects is much more closely allied to the paired association type than to the serial type.
1937 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 268 As a result, we could not apply the method of rank correlation with reference to the paired association of E–A, E–SC, and A–SC.
1990 Jrnl. Exper. Child Psychol. 50 259 The deaf, unlike young hearing children, did not use picture-name rhyme spontaneously as a cue to recall in a paired association task.
paired comparison n. Psychology (a) method of paired comparisons n. (also method of paired comparison) a method of statistically comparing a pair or set of pairs of objects, in which a subject expresses (voluntarily or involuntarily) a preference for one member of each pair over the other, used esp. in cases where a quantitative comparison is more difficult, not possible, or not relevant. (b) attributive (usually with hyphens) designating or relating to this method (also in plural).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > stimulus > [noun] > comparison in pairs
paired comparison1900
1900 Mind 9 139 Major's method of absolute separate judgments is valid. The writer's method of paired comparisons is, however, superior.
1937 G. W. Allport Personality (1938) i. 5 The method of paired-comparison recommends itself as an objective and qualitative technique for studying judgements of the affective value of colors.
1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 82 19 With the use of a paired-comparisons procedure, each group consisting of five animals was exposed to all three pairs.
2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 12375 (title) The visual paired-comparison task as a measure of declarative memory.
paired reading n. Education any of various methods of learning to read in which the learner works closely with another person; reading involving this method.
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1984 Special Educ. 11 iii. 12/2 Learning by good example, positive practice and positive reinforcement are major features of the Paired Reading method.
2001 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 29 July md3 An intergenerational project whereby adults do paired reading with students in grades one through six during the school year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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