| couple | |
| 1. n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. | |
| 2. n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together. | |
| 3. n. (informal) A small number. | |
| 4. n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. | |
| 5. n. (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. n. (architecture) A couple-close. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. | |
| 8. adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of. | |
| 9. det. (colloquial, US) Two or a few, a small number of. | |
| 10. v. 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. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate. | |
