| Couple |
a. |
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. |
| Couple |
a. |
Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. |
| Couple |
a. |
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed. |
| Couple |
a. |
See Couple-close. |
| Couple |
a. |
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery;
called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. |
| Couple |
a. |
Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes. |
| Couple |
v. |
To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. |
| Couple |
v. |
To join in wedlock; to marry. |
| Couple |
v. i. |
To come together as male and female; to copulate. |
| Couple-beggar |
n. |
One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. |
| Couple-close |
n. |
A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised. |
| Couple-close |
n. |
A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. |
| Couple-closes |
pl. |
of Couple-close |
| Coupled |
imp. & p. p. |
of Couple |
| Couplement |
n. |
Union; combination; a coupling; a pair. |
| Coupler |
n. |
One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars. |
| Couplet |
n. |
Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. |
