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Couple (noun)
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
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Couple (noun)
Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
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Couple (noun)
A small number.
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Couple (noun)
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
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Couple (noun)
Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.
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Couple (noun)
A couple-close.
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Couple (noun)
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
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Couple (adjective)
Two or (a) small number of.
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Couple (determiner)
Two or a few, a small number of.
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Couple (verb)
To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
“Now the conductor will couple the train cars.”
“I’ve coupled our system to theirs.”
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Couple (verb)
To join in wedlock; to marry.
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Couple (verb)
To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
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Pair (noun)
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
“I couldn’t decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.”
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Pair (noun)
Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
“Spouses should make a great pair.”
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Pair (noun)
Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only)
“a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans”
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Pair (noun)
A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
“A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.”
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Pair (noun)
A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
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Pair (noun)
A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
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Pair (noun)
A double play, two outs recorded in one play
“They turned a pair to end the fifth.”
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Pair (noun)
A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
“The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.”
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Pair (noun)
A pair of breasts
“She’s got a gorgeous pair.”
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Pair (noun)
The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
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Pair (noun)
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
“There were two pairs on the final vote.”
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Pair (noun)
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
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Pair (noun)
In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
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Pair (verb)
To group into sets of two.
“The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom’s party/bride’s party.”
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Pair (verb)
To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
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Pair (verb)
To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
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Pair (verb)
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
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Pair (verb)
to form wireless connection between to devices
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Couple (noun)
two people or things of the same sort considered together
“a couple of girls were playing marbles”
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Couple (noun)
a pair of partners in a dance or game.
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Couple (noun)
a pair of hunting dogs.
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Couple (noun)
two collars joined together and used for holding hounds together.
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Couple (noun)
a pair of rafters.
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Couple (noun)
a pair of equal and parallel forces acting in opposite directions, and tending to cause rotation about an axis perpendicular to the plane containing them.
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Couple (noun)
two people who are married or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually
“in three weeks the couple fell in love and became engaged”
“a honeymoon couple”
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Couple (noun)
an indefinite small number
“clean the stains with a couple squirts dishwashing liquid”
“he hoped she’d be better in a couple of days”
“we got some eggs—would you like a couple?”
“just a couple more questions”
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Couple (verb)
link or combine (something) with something else
“a sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss”
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Couple (verb)
connect (a railway vehicle or a piece of equipment) to another
“a cable is coupled up to one of the wheels”
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Couple (verb)
connect (two electrical components) using electromagnetic induction, electrostatic charge, or an optical link
“resistors are used to couple the oscillators”
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Couple (verb)
join to form a pair
“the beetles may couple up to form a pair”
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Couple (verb)
mate or have sexual intercourse
“as middle-class youth grew more tolerant of sex, they started to couple more often”