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Definition of Couple
Couple
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.

A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.

See Couple-close.

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.

To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.

To join in wedlock; to marry.

To come together as male and female; to copulate.


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Couple Quotations
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
Henny Youngman

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
Leonardo DiCaprio


My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.
Christopher Walken

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Christopher Walken

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Phyllis Diller

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.
Layne Staley

We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.
Shane West

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
Brett Favre

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Sally Ride

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Sally Ride

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
Ziggy Marley

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
Charlize Theron

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan Quayle

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
Henry Rollins

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
Pete Sampras

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
Eric Clapton

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
Tim Vine

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
Russell Baker

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.
Mary J. Blige

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Couple Translations
couple in Dutch is echtpaar, echtelieden
couple in French is couple, accolons, accolent, accolez, accoupler
couple in German is kuppeln, Paar, paar, verbinden
couple in Italian is abbinare, paio
couple in Latin is iugo
couple in Norwegian is par
couple in Portuguese is pares
couple in Spanish is embragar, pareja
couple in Swedish is koppla, par






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