Other Definitions couple (enc)
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Couple| Noun | 1. | couple - a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days" | | | 2. | couple - a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" power couple - a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential DINK - a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) | | | 3. | couple - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"pair - two people considered as a unit same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" | | | 4. | couple - two items of the same kindcouplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke 2, II, two, deuce - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | | | 5. | couple - something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel linesdipole - a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance building block, unit - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids" moment - the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces | | | Verb | 1. | couple - bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"match - give or join in marriage mismate - provide with an unsuitable mate mismatch - match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together bring together, join - cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together" | | | 2. | couple - link together; "can we couple these proposals?" | | | 3. | couple - form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"unite, unify - act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief | | | 4. | couple - make love; "Birds mate in the Spring"nick - mate successfully; of livestock conjoin, join - make contact or come together; "The two roads join here" bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, be intimate, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep with, hump, jazz, love, bed, bang, make out, know - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" tread - mate with; "male birds tread the females" service, serve - mate with; "male animals serve the females for breeding purposes" deflower, ruin - deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" mount, ride - copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" backcross - mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents breed, cover - copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare" | |
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