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What (who) is Couple - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Couple (disambiguation); Couples (album); Couples (disambiguation); Couples
couple
I
n. a married; unmarried couple
II
v. (D; tr.) to couple to, with (to couple a dining car to a train)
couple
(couples, coupling, coupled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.
Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard...
I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
...a small working-class town in Massachusetts, a couple of hundred miles from New York City.
QUANT: QUANT of pl-n
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Couple is also a determiner in spoken American English, and before 'more' and 'less'.
...a couple weeks before the election...
I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.
DET
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Couple is also a pronoun.
I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
PRON
2.
A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship.
The couple have no children.
...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home.
N-COUNT-COLL
3.
A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association.
...as the four couples began the opening dance...
N-COUNT-COLL
4.
If you say that one thing produces a particular effect when it is coupled with another, you mean that the two things combine to produce that effect.
...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves...
Over-use of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration...
= combine
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed with n, V-ed
5.
If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together.
Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox...
The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to n, be V-ed together
6.
see also coupling
couple
¦ noun
1. two individuals of the same sort considered together.
2. [treated as sing. or plural] two people who are married or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually.
3. informal an indefinite small number: a couple of days ago.
4. Mechanics 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.
¦ verb
1. join to form a pair.
(often be coupled to/with) combine.
connect (a railway vehicle or a piece of equipment) to another.
2. have sexual intercourse.
Derivatives
coupledom noun
Origin
Examples of use of Couple
1. Around the table were a couple of senators, a couple of House members, a couple of ambassadors and some spouses.
2. The twins were placed first with a California couple, then with a couple from Britain.
3. It took a couple of weeks, not a couple of years.
4. Or how come a couple dozen pills cost a couple hundred bucks?
5. "I prefer to have a couple of glasses of wine or a couple of pints.