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/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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Couple" Quotes from Famous Books

... replied Grandfather; "those are only a couple of wild crab trees—they do look pretty full of bloom as they are, don't they? But the surprise is a real, live, running around surprise. Here, let me boost you over the fence; that's more fun than a dozen gates." He set Mary Jane over the fence and then came in the ...

— Mary Jane--Her Visit • Clara Ingram Judson

... thirty miles to the place where you are to work, help set up the tent, placard the town with posters, and spend several weeks in a strenuous campaign of meetings and visitation—why, that's a thrill! Your bed may be made of a couple of planks laid on sawhorses, and you may have to eat boiled rice, greens, and beancurd three times a day. But that's just the beauty of it! Why, it's good for anyone to go back to the simple life! A little healthy 'bitterness' is ...

— Have We No Rights? - A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries • Mabel Williamson

... Messer Paolo, whose palaces fronted each other on the Grand Canal. Messer Paolo was a widower, with one married daughter, and an only son of twenty years or thereabouts, named Gerardo. Messer Pietro's wife was still living; and this couple had but one child, a daughter, called Elena, of exceeding beauty, aged fourteen. Gerardo, as is the wont of gallants, was paying his addresses to a certain lady; and nearly every day he had to cross the Grand Canal in his gondola, and to pass beneath the house of Elena on his way ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... toward the city, which seemed only a couple of miles distant; but when they had traveled less than a mile it suddenly disappeared again. Once more they paused, somewhat discouraged, but in a moment the button eyes of Scraps again discovered the city, only this time it was just behind them, ...

— The Lost Princess of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... at that hut in the little clearing, somewhere about half a mile on, and get a couple of torches. If you were to fall and twist your foot you would not be able ...

— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

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