COUPLE

Pronunciation (US):

• COUPLE (noun)
  The noun COUPLE has 5 senses:

1. a small indefinite number
2. a pair of people who live together
3. a pair who associate with one another
4. two items of the same kind
5. (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines

  Familiarity information: COUPLE used as a noun is common.

• COUPLE (verb)
  The verb COUPLE has 4 senses:

1. bring two objects, ideas, or people together
2. link together
3. form a pair or pairs
4. make love

  Familiarity information: COUPLE used as a verb is uncommon.

• COUPLE (noun)

Meaning:

A small indefinite number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

he's coming for a couple of days

Hypernyms ("couple" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

Meaning:

A pair of people who live together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

mates; couple; match

Context example:

a married couple from Chicago

Hypernyms ("couple" is a kind of...):

family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "couple"):

power couple (a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential)

DINK (a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids))

Meaning:

A pair who associate with one another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

twosome; couple; duet; duo

Context examples:

the engaged couple / an inseparable twosome

Hypernyms ("couple" is a kind of...):

pair (two people considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "couple"):

same-sex marriage (two people of the same sex who live together as a family)

Meaning:

Two items of the same kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

twosome; twain; dyad; duo; duet; duad; distich; couplet; brace; pair; span; yoke; couple

Hypernyms ("couple" is a kind of...):

2; deuce; II; two (the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "couple"):

doubleton ((bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player)

Meaning:

(physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("couple" is a kind of...):

building block; unit (a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else)

Meronyms (parts of "couple"):

moment of a couple (given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "couple"):

dipole (a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance)

• COUPLE (verb)

Meaning:

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

couple; twin; pair; mate; match

Context examples:

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

Hypernyms (to "couple" is one way to...):

bring together; join (cause to become joined or linked)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "couple"):

mismatch (match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together)

mismate (provide with an unsuitable mate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Meaning:

Link together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

couple on; couple up; couple

Context example:

can we couple these proposals?

Hypernyms (to "couple" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

uncouple (disconnect or separate)

Meaning:

Form a pair or pairs

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

pair; pair off; partner off; couple

Context example:

The two old friends paired off

Hypernyms (to "couple" is one way to...):

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Meaning:

Make love

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

copulate; mate; couple; pair

Context example:

Birds mate in the Spring

Hypernyms (to "couple" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "couple"):

bugger; sodomise; sodomize (practice anal sex upon)

breed; cover (copulate with a female, used especially of horses)

backcross (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)

mount; ride (copulate with)

deflower; ruin (deprive of virginity)

serve; service; tread (mate with)

bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)

nick (mate successfully; of livestock)

sodomise; sodomize (copulate with an animal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s