| 单词 | couple |
| 释义 | Word Frequency couple(ˈkʌpəl) noun 1. two people who regularly associate with each other or live together an engaged couple 2. (functioning as singular or plural) two people considered as a pair, for or as if for dancing, games, etc 3. mainly hunting a. a pair of collars joined by a leash, used to attach hounds to one another b. two hounds joined in this way c. the unit of reckoning for hounds in a pack twenty and a half couple 4. a pair of equal and opposite parallel forces that have a tendency to produce rotation with a torque or turning moment equal to the product of either force and the perpendicular distance between them 5. physics a. two dissimilar metals, alloys, or semiconductors in electrical contact, across which a voltage develops thermocouple b. Also called: galvanic couple two dissimilar metals or alloys in electrical contact that when immersed in an electrolyte act as the electrodes of an electrolytic cell 6. a connector or link between two members, such as a tie connecting a pair of rafters in a roof 7. a couple of pronoun 8. (usually preceded by a; functioning as singular or plural) two; a pair give him a couple verb 9. (transitive) to connect (two things) together or to connect (one thing) to (another) to couple railway carriages 10. (transitive) to do (two things) simultaneously or alternately he couples studying with teaching 11. to form or be formed into a pair or pairs 12. to associate, put, or connect together history is coupled with sociology 13. to link (two circuits) by electromagnetic induction 14. (intransitive) to have sexual intercourse 15. to join or be joined in marriage; marry 16. (transitive) to attach (two hounds to each other) Word origin C13: from Old French: a pair, from Latin cōpula a bond; see copula |
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