Couple vs. Both

Couple vs. Both — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Couple and Both

Couplenoun

Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Bothdeterminer

Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.

Both children are such dolls.

Couplenoun

Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

Bothpronoun

Each of the two, or of the two kinds.

"Did you want this one or that one?" — "Give me both."They were both here.

Couplenoun

(informal) A small number.

Bothconjunction

Including both of (used with and).

Both you and I are students.
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Couplenoun

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

Bothconjunction

(obsolete) Including all of (used with and).

Couplenoun

(physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.

Bothadjective

(used with count nouns) two considered together; the two;

both girls are pretty

Couplenoun

(architecture) A couple-close.

Couplenoun

(obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

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Coupleadjective

Two or (a) small number of.

Coupledeterminer

Two or a few, a small number of.

Coupleverb

(transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).

Now the conductor will couple the train cars.I've coupled our system to theirs.

Coupleverb

To join in wedlock; to marry.

Coupleverb

(intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

Couplenoun

a small indefinite number;

he's coming for a couple of days

Couplenoun

a pair of people who live together;

a married couple from Chicago

Couplenoun

a pair who associate with one another;

the engaged couplean inseparable twosome

Couplenoun

two items of the same kind

Couplenoun

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

Coupleverb

bring two objects, ideas, or people together;

This fact is coupled to the other oneMatchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project

Coupleverb

link together;

can we couple these proposals?

Coupleverb

form a pair or pairs;

The two old friends paired off

Coupleverb

make love;

Birds mate in the Spring