Crossword clues for couple
couple
- Pair left in sports car
- Join one unable to drive alone in car
- Two of a kind
- Hook up
- Fasten together
- Tandy and Cronyn, e.g
- Tabloid item (part 2)
- Tabloid item
- Item, so to speak
- Item in the news, perhaps
- Date night pair
- Brad and Angelina, for one
- Anniversary celebrants
- "The Odd ___" (old sitcom)
- "The Odd ____"
- Twosome
- Dance team
- Counselor's clients, perhaps
- Candlelight diners, perhaps
- A pair of people who live together
- Something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
- Two items of the same kind
- A small indefinite number
- A pair who associate with one another
- Join freight cars
- Pair up
- Vehicle carrying Latin duo
- Who left in two-seater?
- Pair, ignoring me, come up with article in French
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Couple \Cou"ple\, v. i.
To come together as male and female; to copulate. [Obs.]
--Milton. Bacon.
Couple \Cou"ple\ (k[u^]p"'l), n. [F. couple, fr. L. copula a bond, band; co- + apere, aptum, to join. See Art, a., and cf. Copula.]
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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.
--L'Estrange.I'll go in couples with her.
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Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. ``A couple of shepherds.''
--Sir P. Sidney. ``A couple of drops''
--Addison. ``A couple of miles.''
--Dickens. ``A couple of weeks.''
--Carlyle.Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple.
--Locke.[Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled.
--2 Sam. xvi. 1. -
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
Such were our couple, man and wife.
--Lloyd.Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league.
--Milton. (Arch.) See Couple-close.
(Elec.) 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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(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.
Couple \Cou"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coupled (k[u^]p"'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Coupling (k[u^]p"l[i^]ng).] [F. coupler, fr. L. copulare. See Couple, n., and cf. Copulate, Cobble, v.]
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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.
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To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.]
A parson who couples all our beggars.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old French copler, from cople (see couple (n.)). Related: Coupled; coupling.
late 13c., from Old French cople "married couple, lovers" (12c., Modern French couple), from Latin copula "tie, connection," from PIE *ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened mid-14c. to "any two things."
Wiktionary
det. (context informal English) A small number of. n. 1 Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. 2 Two of the same kind connected or considered together. 3 (label en informal) A small number. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another). 2 (context transitive dated English) To join in wedlock; to marry. 3 (context intransitive English) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
WordNet
v. 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" [syn: match, mate, pair, twin]
link together; "can we couple these proposals?" [syn: couple on, couple up] [ant: uncouple]
form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off" [syn: pair, pair off, partner off]
make love; "Birds mate in the Spring" [syn: copulate, mate, pair]
n. a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago" [syn: mates, match]
a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: twosome, duo, duet]
two items of the same kind [syn: pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]
something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
Wikipedia
Couple or couples may refer to:
In mechanics, a couple is a system of forces with a resultant (a.k.a. net or sum) moment but no resultant force. A better term is force couple or pure moment. Its effect is to create rotation without translation, or more generally without any acceleration of the centre of mass. In rigid body mechanics, force couples are free vectors, meaning their effects on a body are independent of the point of application.
The resultant moment of a couple is called a torque. This is not to be confused with the term torque as it is used in physics, where it is merely a synonym of moment. Instead, torque is a special case of moment. Torque has special properties that moment does not have, in particular the property of being independent of reference point, as described below.
Couple, formerly Pair, is a mobile app which provides a mobile messaging service for two people, especially romantic couples. Like many mobile phone messaging applications, Couple allows users to share text, photos, video and other content. It's a competitor to apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and KakaoTalk, but it's unique in that it is for communicating with exactly one other person. Couple is one of a slew of mobile applications that intentionally confine their communication to a small group, as opposed to large public or semi-public networks like Twitter.
The app is currently available on iPhone and Android. The free application garnered more than 100,000 users after only a week. TenthBit, the company producing Couple, is part of the Y Combinator startup incubator.
On February 2, 2013, TenthBit announced that it had acquired rival U.K. app Cupple and changed the name of the merged app from Pair to Couple.
Usage examples of "couple".
He had consumed a couple of ounces by the time I had him properly secured and his palm thoroughly swabbed with raw alcohol, and was looking significantly more relaxed than he had upon entering the room.
Lionel Brown had fractured his left leg in at least two places, broken his left wrist, and probably crushed a couple of ribs.
A short, silent black man was stoking the fire, while a couple of the teenagers rifled the packs for food.
Townsend was kicking the bejesus out of a hastily built fire, thwarting the attempts of a couple of young men to rebuild it.
The humped mound of the lodge was reflected in still water, and on the far bank she could see the agitated judderings of a couple of willow saplings, evidently in the process of being consumed.
It had occurred to Jamie a couple of days before, in the vague way that one recognizes a fact unconsciously known for some time, that Tom Christie was in love with his wife.
Jamie had forced me to take almost all the moneynot a great deal, but there was a small weight of coin at the bottom of each of the pockets tied around my waist, and a couple of proclamation notes tucked inside my stays.
I slid off the bed and shook my shoes, dislodging a small roach and a couple of silverfish who had taken shelter in the toes.
He had been at his work all day and saw little of value to show for it, save a headache behind his eyes and some not very expert surveillance on the part of a couple of presumably bored Khagggun.
Heading for one, he lost a couple of seconds, everything went dark, and he momentarily lost his bearings.
They were moving at eight thousand meters per second, just a couple of thousand meters above the ground.
He fiddled with his feeder, and munched slowly on a couple of fruit bars.
The owner of the post office gave him directions to a couple of bed-and-breakfast homes.
Maybe that accounted for the offal: a couple of osprechs were hobbled near the creek, just upstream of the house.
They were standing a couple of hundred feet above the level of the Tiefer depot.