Word Finder - couple

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Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

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Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

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A small number.

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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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Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.

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A couple-close.

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That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

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To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).

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I've coupled our system to theirs.

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To join in wedlock; to marry.

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To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

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Two or (a) small number of.

I have a couple of polo shirts, but no light shirts.

Think about it a couple of minutes.

Finally he took down a couple of cups and poured them some coffee.

She pulled a couple of bowls out of the refrigerator.

Howie only came to New Hampshire a couple of times.

He leaned forward to flip a couple of pages.

In her bathroom, she wiped her face with a cold rag and took a couple of aspirin.

Her make-up, though she used very little, and a couple of bathing suits.

They should be doing an ultrasound in a couple of weeks.

Your new couple can always change that part if they want to.

The father and mother came into the room and gave the betrothed couple their blessing.

The wolf crouched, gnashed her teeth, and again rose and bounded forward, followed at the distance of a couple of feet by all the borzois, who did not get any closer to her.

There will be one from each of us to the other, and then a couple for the children from Santa.

The adjutant bent his head affirmatively and began to report, but the Emperor turned from him, took a couple of steps, stopped, came back, and called Berthier.

A couple of wing-backed chairs and sofa sank luxuriously into that thick wine carpet, but what caught her full attention was the wide curving staircase.

A couple of blocks away, I crawled into a horrible alley and began to cry out.

And though Prince Vasili, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him.

The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood.

But he, poor man, disturbed only a couple of fins while I was catching a fair string, and he said it was his luck; but when we changed seats in the boat luck changed seats too.

Their box was pervaded by that atmosphere of an affianced couple which Natasha knew so well and liked so much.

They were the second couple to enter the circle.

Only a couple of times a year--when he knew from their valets that they had money in hand--he would turn up of a morning quite sober and with a deep bow would ask them to help him.

Sure, if he isn't saddled with a wife and a couple of kids.

We only have a couple of days until the autumn equinox.

Though it isn't so much a time as a state of mind, historians plot the Renaissance as moving around Europe for a couple of centuries.

I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out.

He finished a couple of bottles of wine by himself.

I've picked up a couple of the metal symbols to add to my often-useful collection.

I had a couple of Sam Adams and a roast beef sandwich and arrived at the 30th Street station in Philadelphia just before four o'clock.

We could use the help of a couple of Original Beings.

We were not an exemplary couple," he added quickly, glancing at Natasha and noticing on her face curiosity as to how he would speak of his wife, "but her death shocked me terribly.

The article was a page five filler and hopefully will be forgotten in a couple of days.

Our location should be within a couple of hours at the most from a city; not in the country, per se, perhaps a small town.

Maybe a couple of hundred sold so far, all in California.

As I passed by the volunteer resident keeper's site, I saw an elderly couple in lounge chairs by a cold fire pit.

A couple of them were talking quietly, but she didn't hear them, instead unable to fathom that anyone would find her life worth protecting after her father hadn't.

The couple was hoping to get on the road ahead of one or more of the feuding Dawkinses, who might be moseying to the same destination.

What if the basic unit was a couple, a relationship, and what if that relationship had an identity?

Another friend tells her either member of the couple should be able to instantly remove the couple page when the relationship goes sour.

Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.

Over the next couple of weeks, Cynthia made a few visits to town, once taking in a movie before she returned.

I passed the golf course, as green as an Irish post card and envied the couple strolling down the fairway.

Earlier, my wife had taken care of all the logistics of our travels while I locked up the house and called Jackson to tell him we would be out of town for a couple of days, retrieving Howie from California.

She was only a couple of paces away when she saw him, and to her too he was not the Nicholas she had known and always slightly feared.

At the end of the eighteenth century there were a couple of dozen men in Paris who began to talk about all men being free and equal.

Finally he sucked a couple times and then began searching again.

His mother pushed him off on us because he stayed up here in New Hampshire because he stayed here a couple of summers growing and she thought visiting might jar something loose.

Quinn worked on increasing the precision of time and location but it remained about the same; anything longer than a couple of days was a problem.

Eric was a seven year old who was abducted by a couple and held for ransom.

Finally, Howie reluctantly agreed to wait a couple of days and see how the situation played out.