couple
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
- 2.
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- 3.
(informal)A small number.
- 4.
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- 5.
(physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
- 6.
(architecture) A couple-close.
- 7.
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(Canada, US, informal, not comparable)Two or (a) small number of.
determiner
determinercopel
- 1.
(Canada, US, colloquial)Two or a few, a small number of.
A couple fewer people show up every week.
I'll be there in a couple minutes.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
I've coupled our system to theirs.
- 2.
(dated, transitive)To join in wedlock; to marry.
- 3.
(intransitive)To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- 4.
(transitive)To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
- 5.
(transitive)(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.
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From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. copula.