| couple | | |
| n. (group) | 1. couple, duet, duo, twosome | a pair who associate with one another.; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" |
| ~ pair | two people considered as a unit. |
| ~ same-sex marriage | two people of the same sex who live together as a family.; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" |
| n. (group) | 2. couple, match, mates | a pair of people who live together.; "a married couple from Chicago" |
| ~ family unit, family | primary social group; parents and children.; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
| ~ 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). |
| n. (quantity) | 3. couple | a small indefinite number.; "he's coming for a couple of days" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke | two items of the same kind. |
| ~ fellow, mate | one of a pair.; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" |
| ~ 2, ii, two, deuce | the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number. |
| ~ doubleton | (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player. |
| n. (object) | 5. couple | (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ dipole | a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance. |
| ~ building block, unit | a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.; "units of nucleic acids" |
| ~ moment of a couple | given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them. |
| v. (contact) | 6. couple, match, mate, pair, twin | bring two objects, ideas, or people together.; "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" |
| ~ match | give or join in marriage. |
| ~ mismate | provide with an unsuitable mate. |
| ~ mismatch | match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together. |
| ~ bring together, join | cause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together" |
| v. (contact) | 7. couple, couple on, couple up | link together.; "can we couple these proposals?" |
| ~ attach | cause to be attached. |
| v. (social) | 8. couple, pair, pair off, partner off | form a pair or pairs.; "The two old friends paired off" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| v. (contact) | 9. copulate, couple, mate, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| ~ nick | mate successfully; of livestock. |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ be intimate, 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, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, hump, jazz, bed, love, bang, make out, know | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ tread | mate with.; "male birds tread the females" |
| ~ service, serve | mate with.; "male animals serve the females for breeding purposes" |
| ~ deflower, ruin | deprive of virginity.; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" |
| ~ mount, ride | copulate with.; "The bull was riding the cow" |
| ~ breed, cover | copulate with a female, used especially of horses.; "The horse covers the mare" |
| ~ bugger, sodomise, sodomize | practice anal sex upon. |
| ~ sodomise, sodomize | copulate with an animal. |
| harmony | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. harmoniousness, harmony | compatibility in opinion and action. |
| ~ compatibility | capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination. |
| ~ congruence, congruity, congruousness | the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate. |
| n. (communication) | 2. harmony, musical harmony | the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords. |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| ~ harmonisation, harmonization | a piece of harmonized music. |
| ~ four-part harmony | harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines. |
| ~ preparation | (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord.; "the resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance" |
| ~ resolution | (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord. |
| n. (state) | 3. concord, concordance, harmony | a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole. |
| ~ order | established customary state (especially of society).; "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
| ~ peace | harmonious relations; freedom from disputes.; "the roommates lived in peace together" |
| ~ comity | a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect. |
| ~ accord, agreement | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.; "the two parties were in agreement" |
| n. (communication) | 4. concord, concordance, harmony | agreement of opinions. |
| ~ agreement | the verbal act of agreeing. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. harmony | an agreeable sound property. |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| ~ harmoniousness, consonance | the property of sounding harmonious. |
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