couplet

IPA: kˈʌpɫʌt

A set of two things, particularly
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.

Examples of "couplet" in Sentences

That first couplet is too perfect for explanation.
Will stop now as the third couplet is even worse, and wouldn’t wish to give offence.
A. 2.p. 242), we find that either line of the couplet is shortened by a foot; it is, therefore, majzú.
(The first couplet is by Roger Boyle, the Earl of Orrery, 1621-79, and the second by the ever-great Anonymous.)
When she came to him, radiant, her hands full of the lilies, a couplet from a favourite poem darted into his head –
Most poems are odes or odes-in-spirit that marvel at the qualities of a creature in couplet quatrains or another traditional form.
A major function of the eastside couplet is to integrate traffic onto the Bridgehead site to give it greater exposure (Opus's idea).
The wasteful Burnside-Couch traffic "couplet" is having a "groundbreaking" tomorrow afternoon -- at least, the east side section of it.
‘Walter and Jane,’ the second poem, is an artless tale of two lovers, related with a simplicity by no means inelegant, in couplet verse; and to a manner calculated to remind the reader of the narrative style of our best