Found 4 items, similar to couple.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: couple sepasang
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: couple menggandengkan, pasangan, sejodoh
English → English (WordNet) Definition: couple couple v 1: 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” [syn: match, mate, pair, twin] 2: link together; “can we couple these proposals?” [syn: couple on , couple up] [ant: uncouple] 3: form a pair or pairs; “The two old friends paired off” [syn: pair, pair off, partner off] 4: make love; “Birds mate in the Spring” [syn: copulate, mate, pair] couple n 1: a small indefinite number; “he's coming for a couple of days” 2: a pair of people who live together; “a married couple from Chicago” [syn: mates, match] 3: a pair who associate with one another; “the engaged couple”; “an inseparable twosome” [syn: twosome, duo, duet] 4: two items of the same kind [syn: pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 5: something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
English → English (gcide) Definition: Couple Couple \Cou"ple\, v. i. To come together as male and female; to copulate. [Obs.] --Milton. Bacon. [1913 Webster] Couple \Cou"ple\ (k[u^]p"'l), n. [F. couple, fr. L. copula a bond, band; co- + apere, aptum, to join. See Art, a., and cf. Copula.] 1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] I'll go in couples with her. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. “A couple of shepherds.” --Sir P. Sidney. “A couple of drops” --Addison. “A couple of miles.” --Dickens. “A couple of weeks.” --Carlyle. [1913 Webster] Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple. --Locke. [1913 Webster] [Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled. --2 Sam. xvi. 1. [1913 Webster] 3. A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed. [1913 Webster] Such were our couple, man and wife. --Lloyd. [1913 Webster] Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. (Arch.) See Couple-close. [1913 Webster] 5. (Elec.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mech.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes. [1913 Webster] Note: The effect of a couple of forces is to produce a rotation. A couple of rotations is equivalent to a motion of translation. [1913 Webster] Couple \Cou"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coupled (k[u^]p"'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Coupling (k[u^]p"l[i^]ng).] [F. coupler, fr. L. copulare. See Couple, n., and cf. Copulate, Cobble, v.] [1913 Webster] 1. To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. [1913 Webster] Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] A parson who couples all our beggars. --Swift. [1913 Webster]