couple — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brace noun A device or support that holds something firmly in place or steadies it.
- couple noun Two people who are in a romantic relationship or married.
- pair noun Two matching or related things considered together.
- torque noun A twisting or rotational force that makes something turn around an axis.
- twosome noun Two people or things considered together, as a pair.
Senses
couple is used for these senses in English:
- brace (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- couple Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- couple Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- couple One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- ordered pair (set theory) An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or \langle a, b\rangle.
- pair Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- torque (physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or N·m; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
- twosome A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
brace — full definition
- noun A device or support that holds something firmly in place or steadies it.
- noun A pair of something, especially game birds or similar items.
- verb To prepare oneself for something difficult or unpleasant, such as an impact or shock.
couple — full definition
- noun Two people who are in a romantic relationship or married.
- noun A small, unspecified number of things or people — roughly two or a few.
- verb To join or connect two things together.