[
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
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
- I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
- He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat. FOLLY
- 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.
- There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire. Book Contest Links ... more than a few
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.