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Noun couple has 5 senses
- couple - a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
--1 is a kind of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
- couple, mates, match - a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"
--2 is a kind of family, family unit
--2 has particulars: power couple; DINK
- couple, twosome, duo, duet - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"
--3 is a kind of pair
--3 has particulars: same-sex marriage
- couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad - two items of the same kind
--4 is a kind of two, 2, II, deuce
--4 has particulars: doubleton
- couple - something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
--5 is a kind of unit, building block
--5 has part: moment
--5 has particulars: dipole
Verb couple has 4 senses
- match, mate, couple, pair, twin - bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
--1 is one way to join, bring together
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- couple, couple on, couple up - link together; "can we couple these proposals?"
--2 is one way to attach
Antonyms: uncouple, decouple
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pair, pair off, partner off, couple - form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
--3 is one way to unite, unify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- copulate, mate, pair, couple - make love; "Birds mate in the Spring"
--4 is one way to join, conjoin
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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