[
US
/ˈkəpəɫ/
]
[ UK /kˈʌpəl/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌpəl/ ]
VERB
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bring two objects, ideas, or people together
The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
This fact is coupled to the other one -
form a pair or pairs
The two old friends paired off -
link together
can we couple these proposals? -
engage in sexual intercourse
Birds mate in the Spring
NOUN
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a small indefinite number
he's coming for a couple of days -
a pair who associate with one another
the engaged couple
an inseparable twosome
the engaged couple -
a pair of people who live together
a married couple from Chicago - two items of the same kind
- (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
How To Use couple In A Sentence
- I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Mix up pots of poster paint, and give your children a pot of paint in each colour, a couple of brushes and a glass of water.
- After our engineless sail into the anchorage at Santa Domingo we spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate the iron genny. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- She strode over to a couple of fallen logs and kicked one of them.
- He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things.
- Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful. Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
