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couple
Noun
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A couple is two (2) things that go together.
Can you lend me a couple of dollars?
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A couple is two people that love one another.
John and Susan make a nice couple, don't they?
couple
Verb
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If you couple two things, you join them together.
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If two people couple, they have sex.
balancing
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noun
(= reconciliation)
getting two things to correspond
the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement