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otherquantifierIf you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard.I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days....a small town a couple of hundred miles from New York City....a couple weeks before the election.I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.I've got a couple that don't look too bad.nounA couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship .The couple have no children....after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home....an isolated spot popular with courting couples.A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association ....as the four couples began the opening dance.They were an odd couple.verbIf you say that one thing produces a particular effect when it is coupled with another, you mean that the two things combine to produce that effect....a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves.Over-use of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration....memories or past failures, coupled with a feeling of guilt.If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together.Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox.The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.The technique requires the coupling of a particle accelerator and a mass spectrometer. A2

word	couple
definition	other quantifier If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it. Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard. I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days. ...a small town a couple of hundred miles from New York City. ...a couple weeks before the election. I think I can play maybe for a couple more years. I've got a couple that don't look too bad. noun A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship . The couple have no children. ...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home. ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples. A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association . ...as the four couples began the opening dance. They were an odd couple. verb If you say that one thing produces a particular effect when it is coupled with another, you mean that the two things combine to produce that effect. ...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves. Over-use of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration. ...memories or past failures, coupled with a feeling of guilt. If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together. Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox. The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays. The technique requires the coupling of a particle accelerator and a mass spectrometer.
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cefr-level	A2

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