couple
IPA: kˈʌpʌɫ
noun
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (informal) A small number.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
- (architecture) A couple-close.
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
verb
- (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
- (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
- (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
adjective
- (informal, US, Canada) Two or (a) small number of.
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Examples of "couple" in Sentences
- This couple is the best bully i have never seen l3sli3 from michigan
- I want everyone to sense that this couple is the Romeo and Juliet of this time.
- Maybe somewhere on the threshold of being a couple, but only on the line, not crossing it into the point where we’re a couple
- It still seems to me that refusing to divorce a couple is a tacit recognition that the couple is legally married in the state of Texas.
- Though the people who populate their world may be batty, the title couple themselves ground the show with a center of un-ironic sincerity.
- Those familiar with the original "murder ballad" will recall that "Frankie and Johnny" has always had three characters — the title couple and an interloping Nellie Bly.
- Created and written by comedians Ruth Jones and James Corden, the show follows the title couple, played by the winsome Joanna Page and the just-handsome-enough Mathew Horne.
- While I admit that in the Sharing Knife the relationship between the couple is a central theme, I actually find her Vorkosigan and Chalion series to be equally, if not more, romantic.
- The 70-year-old writing, yoga and meditation teacher says she has been taken aback by what she calls the couple's "high-handedness," demonstrated not only by the scope of their project but in the way they cleared brush to mark their property lines and expanded a road cutting up the hillside.
- There’s no reason in the world for you to oppose same-sex adoption, and certainly no reason to oppose same-sex marriage because it will mean same-sex couples can adopt as couples in every state in the US but Florida, same-sex couples can already adopt children, but legally they are treated as an unmarried couple* and therefore only one of the couple becomes the child’s legal parent.
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