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Meaning couple meaning

What does couple mean?
Definitions in simple English

couple

A couple is two (2) things that go together. Can you lend me a couple of dollars? A couple is two people that love one another. John and Susan make a nice couple, don't they?

couple

If you couple two things, you join them together. If two people couple, they have sex.

couple

(= twosome) a pair who associate with one another the engaged couple an inseparable twosome a pair of people who live together a married couple from Chicago a small indefinite number he's coming for a couple of days (= match, pair) 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 link together can we couple these proposals? two items of the same kind (= pair, pair off) form a pair or pairs The two old friends paired off (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines (= mate) engage in sexual intercourse Birds mate in the Spring

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Conjugation couple conjugation

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couple · verb

Examples couple examples

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Simple sentences

This is the couple who showed me the way.
I've been there a couple of times.
I am taking a couple of days off.
The couple next door are fighting again.
The idea that reading makes you short-sighted has been popular for a couple of hundred years.
We hope Tom sticks around for a couple of weeks.
Tom has finished painting the picture of Mary that he's been working on for a couple of months.
A couple of sparrows are building a nest on the balcony of my house.
I don't know if you remember me, but we met a couple of years ago in Boston.
There are only a couple of pieces left.
Tom and Mary make a very nice couple.
We have a couple of classes together.
Tom and Mary seem like the perfect couple.
Could you lend me your bicycle for a couple of days?
The burglar locked the couple in the basement.
The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years.
Give me another couple of days to think it over.
What a gorgeous sunset! Let's hang around for a couple of minutes and watch it.
To all appearances, they are a happy couple.
The old couple sat side by side.
The old couple gave up their son for lost.
The old couple embarked on a tour around the world.
The old couple had no children.
The doctors were wrong to condemn the couple.
The couple lived a happy life to the end.
The couple named their first child Mark.
The couple doesn't fight often these days, but they used to a lot.
It is pleasant to watch a loving old couple.
Peter and Eve make a handsome couple.
The couple led a happy life.
The couple spent a lot of money on furnishing their house.
The real estate man told lies to the couple.
The newly married couple walked hand in hand.
Let me think it over for a couple of days.

Movie subtitles

Couple days ago, there was a morning special adoption show right?
Phoenix dug down into the dirt, and after only a couple of inches, uncovered crystals of frozen water.
You guys make a really cute couple. Oh.
We're not a couple. No, no, no.
He thinks we're a couple.
We're not a couple.
That's so funny, but we're not a couple.
But the guy told me to wait a couple days until the marble settles.
He was a great sailor and really popular, although, the last couple weeks, it did seem like he really had something on his mind.
And now the groomsmen have a surprise for the special couple.
And he said he was going to throw in a couple deer ticks for, you know, a little extra.
You know, there's a couple of cops up there, maybe a judge.
Well, actually, if you're anything like your dad, I can just wait in the hall for a couple of minutes.
There were a couple of other students as well.
Um. Ms. Dekaan caught a couple of Novices on a surveillance camera.
Well, my boss called, saying we were holding back exemptions for a couple months.
Just a couple of days. And I don't ever wanna go back.
A couple of nights, and the punishment will be over.
Seeing the pain caused by Death, the young couple escapes to the skies.
We'd make a lovely couple.
We three would make an ideal couple.
You couple of baboons, what makes you think I'd marry either one of you?
Before I get married, I'm gonna sow a couple of wild oats.
But we're going back in a couple of weeks.
Lie down for a couple of years.
First couple out to the right and follow the ca.
Yeah, just give me a couple of days to set it up.
Then we'll get hurt too. In order to wake up, cutting off a couple of fingers is a must.
HEY. GONE FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS, AND YOU LEAVE 20 MESSAGES ON MY MACHINE?
A COUPLE OF MILES AWAY IN SOME CRAPPY MOTEL, IRONING OUT ALL THE DETAILS.
I-I ONLY MET HIM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. WELL, HOW DID YOU MEET?
You guys make a really cute couple.
Yeah, well, I guess, uh, that all started a couple weeks ago.
Oh, a couple more of these champion pushes and we'll have no need of it when it arrives.

News and current affairs

Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.
Consider a couple of notorious examples.
For many species of coral, this bleaching threshold is usually only a couple of degrees centigrade above the typical maximum temperature for a given location.
A systemic crisis that simultaneously hits a large number of medium-sized banks would put just as much pressure on governments to bail out the system as would a crisis that hits a couple of large banks.
The housing bubble induced Americans to live beyond their means - net savings has been negative for the past couple of years.
There have been many shocks to the US economy over the past couple of generations, and many factors have added to or subtracted from economic growth.
At the same time, France and Germany must both come to terms with an approach that leads to far greater political union within a couple of decades.
In addition, Germany should delay its fiscal consolidation; if anything, it should cut taxes for a couple of years to boost its own growth and - via trade - that of the periphery.
Over time, the dollar will still decline, but perhaps by no more than a couple of percent per year.
Relative calm was restored to Algiers for a couple of years after his arrival, but then the insurgency broke out again with redoubled strength, and the French had to leave the country in 1962.
The story began a couple of years ago, when former Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo and the United Nations Development Program were charged with drafting the Latin American Democracy Report.
Many are charities and often include on their advisory boards one or two members with clear government connections (the daughter of a minister or an army general, or, in a couple of notable instances, the President's wife).
Couple these statements with recent television footage of Greeks rioting in the street.
It might be fashionable to talk about just a couple of the globe's challenges, but we could achieve a lot more if we focused first on where our spending would be most rational.
Rumor has it the couple has set February 8 or 9 for the wedding. Others say that Sarkozy has already outsmarted the media by secretly marrying in the Elysee Palace, even as he was dodging wedding questions.
If the couple sizzled for cameras with Luxor and Petra as the backdrop, just imagine how hot things could get at the most romantic spot on Earth, the Taj Mahal.
Cambridge - It may take a few months or a couple of years, but one way or another the United States and other advanced economies will eventually recover from today's crisis.
This gap has narrowed in the past couple of years, but much of the improvement probably reflects little more than the temporary impact of an unusually tough business cycle.
But they want to follow up their tactical victory - which postpones the restoration of pre-Bush tax rates for a couple of years - with a longer-term victory next spring.
At the Strasbourg summit, confidence in the future could have been strengthened if a couple of troubling issues had been discussed.
Until now, most investors have thought that they would rather risk high inflation for a couple of years than accept even a short and shallow recession.
Moreover, for a number of reasons, growth in the advanced economies is likely to remain anemic and well below trend for at least a couple of years.
A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.
So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president's very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?

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