point after point after touchdown extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
extra duplicate | something additional of the same kind, he always carried extras in case of an emergency |
pincer pair of pincers tweezer pair of tweezers | a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping |
pliers pair of pliers plyers | a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws |
scissors pair of scissors | an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades |
tongs pair of tongs | any of various devices for taking hold of objects, usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below |
virginal pair of virginals | a legless rectangular harpsichord, played (usually by women) in the th and th centuries |
extra large | a garment size for a very large person |
extra | an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis) |
pair | a poker hand with cards of the same value |
pair | two people considered as a unit |
pair brace | a set of two similar things considered as a unit |
au pair | a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework |
au pair girl | a foreign girl serving as an au pair |
supernumerary spear carrier extra | a minor actor in crowd scenes |
extra dividend | a dividend paid in addition to the regular dividend |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
d couple pair twosome twain brace span yoke couplet distich duo duet dyad duad | two items of the same kind |
base pair | one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands, the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA |
overtime extra time | playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie |
extra innings | overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning, e.g. baseball |
match mate couple pair twin | bring two objects, ideas, or people together, This fact is coupled to the other one, Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?, The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project |
copulate mate pair couple | engage in sexual intercourse, Birds mate in the Spring |
pair geminate | arrange in pairs, Pair these numbers |
pair geminate | occur in pairs |
pair pair off partner off couple | form a pair or pairs, The two old friends paired off |
extra additional | further or added, called for additional troops, need extra help, an extra pair of shoes |
excess extra redundant spare supererogatory superfluous supernumerary surplu | more than is needed, desired, or required, trying to lose excess weight, found some extra change lying on the dresser, yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant, skills made redundant by technological advance, sleeping in the spare room, supernumerary ornamentation, it was supererogatory of her to gloat, delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words, extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts, surplus cheese distributed to the needy |
extra special | added to a regular schedule, a special holiday flight, put on special buses for the big game |
extra | unusually or exceptionally, an extra fast car |