couple

Plural: couples

Noun

• a pair who associate with one another
  • "the engaged couple"
• a pair of people who live together
  • "a married couple from Chicago"
• a small indefinite number
  • "he's coming for a couple of days"
• two items of the same kind
• (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
• Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• A small number.
• One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
• A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
• A couple-close.
• That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

Verb

Verb Forms: coupled, coupling, couples

• To join or link together; to unite in pairs.
• bring two objects, ideas, or people together
  • "This fact is coupled to the other one"
• link together
  • "can we couple these proposals?"
• form a pair or pairs
• engage in sexual intercourse
• To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• To join in wedlock; to marry.
• To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
• To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
• To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.

Adj

• Two or (a) small number of.

Det

• Two or a few, a small number of.

Examples

• A couple fewer people show up every week.
• A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
• He needed to couple his high-value letters with a vowel to make a playable word.
• I'll be there in a couple minutes.
• I've coupled our system to theirs.
• Now the conductor will couple the train cars.

Synonyms

brace, copulate, couple on, couple up, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, match, mate, mates, pair, pair off, partner off, span, twain, twin, twosome, yoke, affix, attach, bewed, espouse, few, handful, have sex, join, make love, marry, put together

Antonyms

uncouple

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