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- English Word Couple Definition See Couple-close.
- English Word Couple Definition One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- English Word Couple Definition Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
- English Word Couple Definition To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
- English Word Couple Definition To join in wedlock; to marry.
- English Word Couple Definition To come together as male and female; to copulate.
- English Word Couple-beggar Definition One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.
- English Word Couple-close Definition A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.
- English Word Couple-close Definition A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.
- English Word Couple-closes Definition of Couple-close
- English Word Coupled Definition of Couple
- English Word Couplement Definition Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.
- English Word Coupler Definition One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.
- English Word Couplet Definition Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
- English Word Coupling Definition of Couple
- English Word Coupling Definition The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.
- English Word Coupling Definition A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.
- English Word Coupon Definition A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
- English Word Coupon Definition A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.
- English Word Coupure Definition A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.