couple : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite more than one but indefinitely small in number
  a few.
  
  • a few roses
  • a couple of roses

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• a metal collar uniting the ends of shafts or other parts in machinery.

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• . See under Box, Chain.

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• a shackle or other device for connecting the cars in a railway train. U. S.

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• . (a) A shackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain.

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• verb link together
  couple; couple on.
  
  • can we couple these proposals?

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• verb link together
  couple; couple on.
  
  • can we couple these proposals?

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Cou"ple-beg`gar noun

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1. One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.

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Cou"ple-close` noun

Wordforms

plural Couple-closes (-kl"sz)

Definitions

1. (Her.) 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.
2. (Arch.) A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. Engl.

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• a form of slip coupling used in light machinery to regulate at pleasure the velocity of the connected shaft.

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• (Mech. & Engin.), a yielding joint or coupling for so uniting parts of a machine or structure that expansion, as by heat, is prevented from causing injurious strains; as by heat, is prevented from causing injurious strains; as: (a) A side or set of rollers, at the end of bridge truss, to support it but allow end play. (b) A telescopic joint in a steam pipe, to permit one part of the pipe to slide within the other. (c) A clamp for holding a locomotive frame to the boiler while allowing lengthwise motion.

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• an engaging and disengaging gear for revolving shafts, pulleys, etc., acting by friction ; esp.: (a) A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives. (b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of being made fast on its shaft, is held by friction and can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in starting.

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• coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end.

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• a universal joint for coupling shafting. See under Universal.

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• (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions.

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• (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof.

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• noun two people who are married to each other
  marriage; man and wife.
  
  • his second marriage was happier than the first
  • a married couple without love

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• noun given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them
  

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• (Mech.), the product of either of its forces into the perpendicular distance between them.

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• noun a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential
  

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• (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw and a left-handed screw, respectivelly.

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• a device for connecting the thill of a vehicle to the axle.

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• . (Mach.) Same as Universal joint, below.

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• a single pair of the connected plates of a battery.

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