couple

  1. Noun.  Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
  2. Noun.  Two of the same kind connected or considered together (''see Usage notes'').
  3. Noun.  (informal) A small number of. See usage notes.
  4. Noun.  One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
  5. Noun.  (physics) 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.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
  7. Verb.  (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
  8. Verb.  (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

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