couple
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Is couple a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of couple?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A small number.Examples: "A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle […]"; "‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’"; "When we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore[…]"Synonyms: few, handfulinformal
2. (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
3. (architecture) A couple-close.
adj (English)
1. (informal, US, Canada) Two or (a) small number of.Examples: "Put any couple guys in a tricked out car and a couple of bandannas […]" He trailed off."; "Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits."; "Apparently, Ann in particular liked these couple pages of the character thing."CanadaUSinformalnot-comparable
det (English)
1. (colloquial, US, Canada) Two or a few, a small number of.Examples: "A couple fewer people show up every week."; "I'll be there in a couple minutes."; "Q. (Mr. Feldman, atty) You say you lived upstairs? A. (Emma Moore) I lived upstairs. Q. Until when? A. About couple months we lived upstairs. Q. Up until couple months ago? A. No, couple months after we moved in there because the down stairs was not finished."CanadaUScolloquial
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).Examples: "Now the conductor will couple the train cars."; "I've coupled our system to theirs."; "Some gritty defence at the death, coupled with some key big moments from individual players at critical times helped secure the win as the All Blacks fought with 14 men for a big chunk of the final after a red card to captain Sam Cane."Synonyms: affixtransitive
2. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.Examples: "I am just going to perform a very good office, it is to assist with the archbishop, in degrading a parson who couples all our beggars"Synonyms: beweddatedtransitive
3. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.Examples: "On their wedding night they coupled nine times."; "She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her […]"Synonyms: have sexintransitive
4. (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.Examples: "The Parilia was generally considered to be the best time for coupling the rams and the ewes."transitive
5. (horse racing, transitive) To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary