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# unpaired

«unpaired» in Mova's school dictionary: **not in a pair, without a partner or match: an unpaired sock** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unpaired)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unpaired means not in a pair, without a partner or match: an unpaired sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#m1)

2) (science) In science, an unpaired thing has no partner where you would expect one, for example an unpaired electron or an unpaired organ like the heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and everyday sorting, when you put things into pairs, the one left over is unpaired; this shows a number is odd. In PE, an unpaired pupil has no partner. Phrases: unpaired socks, left unpaired.

### examples

- After the wash there was one unpaired sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#x1)
- With 25 children in pairs, one child is left unpaired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#x2)
- An odd number always leaves one item unpaired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#x3)
- The teacher partnered the unpaired pupil herself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#x4)
- The heart is an unpaired organ, but we have two lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#x5)
- Put the shoes in pairs and find the unpaired one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/#x6)

### note

«Un-» + «paired». In maths: if you pair up a number of things and one is unpaired, the number is odd (25 = 12 pairs + 1). If none are unpaired, the number is even.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unpaired» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpaired/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.