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Doublet of copula." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Two of the same kind connected or considered together.\nA couple of police officers appeared at the door.\n1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflexions‎, page 64:'Tis in some sort with Friends (Pardon the Coarseness of the illustration) as it is with Dogs in Couples. They should be of the same Size; and Humour; and That which Pleases the One should Please the Other\n1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby\n couple of tables; one of which bore some preparations for supper; while, on the other" }, { "mean": "Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.\n1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal\nI calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders;" }, { "mean": "(informal) A small number.\n1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1839, →OCLC:A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle \n1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Red-Headed League\n‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’\n1902, A. Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands:\nWhen we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore \n1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ .” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.\n1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott : Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir." }, { "mean": "One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple." }, { "mean": "(physics) A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque." }, { "mean": "(architecture) A couple-close." }, { "mean": "That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.\nc. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I’ll keep my stables where / I lodge my wife; I’ll go in couples with her;\n1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:As we passed the deserted mountain-dairy, we must have crossed the fresh track of a hare, because the hounds became rather uneasy in the couples." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.\n2005, Deirdre Savoy, Body of Truth, page 179:Put any couple guys in a tricked out car and a couple of bandannas \" He trailed off.\n2005, Elaine Bonzelaar, Those First Two Years, page 47:Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits.\n2006, Eric Nolen-Weathington, George A. Khoury, Arthur Adams, Modern Masters: Arthur Adams, volume six, page 22:Apparently, Ann in particular liked these couple pages of the character thing." } ] }, { "name": "Determiner", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(colloquial, US) Two or a few, a small number of.\nA couple fewer people show up every week.\nI'll be there in a couple minutes.\n1922, “Lewis J. Bennett et al vs. Sebastien L. Petrino”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division - Fourth Department:Q. (Mr. Feldman, atty) You say you lived upstairs? A. (Emma Moore) I lived upstairs. Q. Until when? A. About couple months we lived upstairs. Q. Up until couple months ago? A. No, couple months after we moved in there because the down stairs was not finished.\n2007, Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation, page 182:Couple boys from way downcountry come for a summer in the woods. Isaac Cole talked to em.\n2011, Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice: \"Couple slices would be great." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).\nNow the conductor will couple the train cars.\nI've coupled our system to theirs." }, { "mean": "(transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.\n1801, Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 14‎, page 59:I am just going to perform a very good office, it is to assist with the archbishop, in degrading a parson who couples all our beggars" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.\n1987 Alan Norman Bold & Robert Giddings, Who was really who in fiction, Longman\nOn their wedding night they coupled nine times.\n2001 John Fisher & Geoff Garvey, The rough guide to Crete, p405\nShe had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.\n1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 328:The Parilia was generally considered to be the best time for coupling the rams and the ewes ." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "결정자", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }