couple
/ˈkʌp.əl/ nom A2En français : paire, couple, époux, quelques
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together. · A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- A small number.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
- A couple-close.
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Pluriel couples
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
“‘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.’
“Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, for the business has not been over good for some years, and an extra couple of hundred would have been very handy.
“There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that was even redder than mine.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
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