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Couple
Examples
A couple was looking at the menu outside the restaurant.
02
two items of the same kind
03
a pair of things or people
Grammatical Information
animacy status
human
Composition
Simple
countable
plural form
couples
Examples
She invited a couple of friends over for dinner.
Examples
There are a couple of mistakes in your essay you should fix.
05
(physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
to couple
01
to bring two things or people together
Transitive: to couple two elements
Ditransitive: to couple an element with another
Examples
The event planner wanted to couple entertainment and education to engage the audience effectively.
02
to engage in sexual reproduction or mating
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
action verb
regular
present tense
couple
3rd person singular
couples
present participle
coupling
past simple
coupled
past participle
coupled
Examples
During mating season, birds couple and build nests together to raise their offspring.
03
to join or connect together to form a pair
Intransitive
Examples
The gears in the transmission couple smoothly, allowing for seamless shifting between speeds.
Lexical Tree
couplet
couple
