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Couple   /kˈəpəl/   Listen
noun
Couple  n.  
1.
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. (Obs.) "It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor." "I'll go in couples with her."
2.
Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. "A couple of shepherds." "A couple of drops" "A couple of miles." "A couple of weeks." "Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple." "(Ziba) met him with a couple of asses saddled."
3.
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed. "Such were our couple, man and wife." "Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league."
4.
(Arch.) See Couple-close.
5.
(Elec.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
6.
(Mech.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes. Note: The effect of a couple of forces is to produce a rotation. A couple of rotations is equivalent to a motion of translation.


verb
Couple  v. t.  (past & past part. coupled; pres. part. coupling)  
1.
To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. "Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds,... And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach."
2.
To join in wedlock; to marry. (Colloq.) "A parson who couples all our beggars."


Couple  v. i.  To come together as male and female; to copulate. (Obs.)





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"Couple" Quotes from Famous Books



... the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she ...
— The Road • Jack London
... at a hop Jazzing in his goloshes, With a dress-tie pert on a cricket-shirt That had shrunk in various washes; And my Major was doing the Donkey-Drop Between a couple of rippers— Yet his pink-and-white pyjama-top If anything seemed a shade de trop, And his faultless coat hardly echoed the note Of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various
... occupations have a good result on the character, and help you to be quiet and recollected, to be the womanly woman who makes a real Home for her father and brothers. As Roger Ascham is reported by Landor to have said to Lady Jane Grey, "exercise that beauteous couple, the mind and body, much and variously; but at home, at home, Jane! indoors, ...
— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby
... had for years rowed her every morning across the bay to the mainland, where she had attended the village school, from whence she had passed to the high school, at which her reputed father had supported her for a couple ...
— The Dock Rats of New York • "Old Sleuth"
... filth in the eyes of those that know the unspeakable beauties of the tabernacles in heaven made without hands, and the apparel woven by God, and the incorruptible diadems which God, the Creator and Lord of all, hath prepared for them that love him. For like as this couple were accounted fools by us, so much the more are we, who go astray in this world and please ourselves in this false glory and senseless pleasure, worthy of lamentation and tears in the eyes of those who have tasted of the ...
— Barlaam and Ioasaph • St. John of Damascus


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