couple

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

   “A couple of police officers appeared at the door.”

2. isim Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

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3. isim A small number.

   “A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle […]”

4. isim One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
5. isim A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
6. isim A couple-close.
7. isim That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

   “I’ll keep my stables where / I lodge my wife; I’ll go in couples with her;”

8. sıfat Two or (a) small number of.

   “Put any couple guys in a tricked out car and a couple of bandannas […]" He trailed off.”

9. belirteç Two or a few, a small number of.

   “A couple fewer people show up every week.”

10. fiil To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).

    “Now the conductor will couple the train cars.”

11. fiil To join in wedlock; to marry.

    “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”

12. fiil To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

    “On their wedding night they coupled nine times.”

13. fiil To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.

    “The Parilia was generally considered to be the best time for coupling the rams and the ewes.”

14. fiil To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.