Couple vs. Single — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Couple and Single
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Couple
Two people or things of the same sort considered together
A couple of girls were playing marbles
Single
Only one; not one of several
The kingdom was ruled over by a single family
A single red rose
Couple
Two people who are married or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually
In three weeks the couple fell in love and became engaged
A honeymoon couple
Single
Unmarried or not involved in a stable sexual relationship
A single mother
Couple
An indefinite small number
Clean the stains with a couple squirts dishwashing liquid
He hoped she'd be better in a couple of days
We got some eggs—would you like a couple?
Just a couple more questions
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Single
Consisting of one part
The studio was a single large room
Couple
Link or combine (something) with something else
A sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss
Single
Free from duplicity or deceit; ingenuous
A pure and single heart
Couple
Mate or have sexual intercourse
As middle-class youth grew more tolerant of sex, they started to couple more often
Single
An individual person or thing rather than part of a pair or a group.
Couple
Two items of the same kind; a pair.
Single
A hit for one run.
Couple
Something that joins or connects two things together; a link.
Single
(especially in tennis and badminton) a game or competition for individual players, not pairs or teams.
Couple
Two people united, as by betrothal or marriage.
Single
A system of change-ringing in which one pair of bells changes places at each round.
Couple
Two people together.
Single
Choose someone or something from a group for special treatment
One newspaper was singled out for criticism
Couple
(Informal) A few; several
A couple of days.
Single
Thin out (seedlings or saplings)
Hand hoes are used for singling roots
Couple
(Physics) A pair of forces of equal magnitude acting in parallel but opposite directions, capable of causing rotation but not translation.
Single
Reduce (a railway track) to a single line
The South Western line was singled west of Salisbury
Couple
To link together; connect
Coupled her refusal with an explanation.
Single
Hit a single
Cohen singled to centre
Couple
(Electricity) To link (two circuits or currents), as by magnetic induction.
Single
Not accompanied by another or others; solitary.
Couple
(Archaic) To join together in marriage; marry.
Single
Consisting of one part, aspect, or section
A single thickness.
A single serving.
Couple
To form pairs; join.
Single
Having the same application for all; uniform
A single moral code for all.
Couple
To unite sexually; have sexual intercourse.
Single
Consisting of one in number
She had but a single thought, which was to escape.
Couple
To join chemically.
Single
Not divided; unbroken
A single slab of ice.
Couple
Two or few
"Every couple years the urge strikes, to ... haul off to a new site" (Garrison Keillor).
Single
Separate from others; individual and distinct
Every single child will receive a gift.
Couple
Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
Single
Having individual opponents; involving two individuals only
Single combat.
Couple
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
Single
Honest; undisguised
A single adoration.
Couple
(informal) A small number.
Single
Wholly attentive
You must judge the contest with a single eye.
Couple
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
Single
Designed to accommodate one person or thing
A single bed.
Couple
(physics) A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque.
Single
Not married or involved in a romantic relationship
Once he knew she was single, he asked her to go out.
Couple
(architecture) A couple-close.
Single
Relating to a state of being unmarried or uninvolved in a romantic relationship
Enjoys the single life.
Couple
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Single
(Botany) Having only one rank or row of petals
A single flower.
Couple
Two or (a) small number of.
Single
One that is separate and individual.
Couple
Two or a few, a small number of.
A couple fewer people show up every week.
I'll be there in a couple minutes.
Single
Something capable of carrying, moving, or holding one person or thing at a time, as a bed or a hotel room.
Couple
(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.
Single
A person who is not married or involved in a romantic relationship.
Couple
To join in wedlock; to marry.
Single
Singles Such persons considered as a group
A bar for singles.
Couple
(intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
Single
A one-dollar bill.
Couple
(transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
Single
A phonograph record, especially a forty-five, having one song on each side.
Couple
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor.
I'll go in couples with her.
Single
A song on one of these sides.
Couple
Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.
Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple.
[Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled.
Single
A song, often from a full-length album or compact disc, that is released for airplay.
Couple
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
Such were our couple, man and wife.
Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league.
Single
(Baseball) A hit enabling the batter to reach first base. Also called one-bagger, one-base hit.
Couple
See Couple-close.
Single
A hit for one run in cricket.
Couple
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; - called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
Single
A golf match between two players.
Couple
Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
Single
Often singles A tennis or badminton match between two players.
Couple
To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.
Single
Singles A competition in which individuals compete against each other, as in rowing or figure skating.
Couple
To join in wedlock; to marry.
A parson who couples all our beggars.
Single
To cause (a base runner) to score or advance by hitting a single
Singled him to second.
Couple
To come together as male and female; to copulate.
Single
To cause the scoring of (a run) by hitting a single.
Couple
A small indefinite number;
He's coming for a couple of days
Single
To hit a single.
Couple
A pair of people who live together;
A married couple from Chicago
Single
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
Couple
A pair who associate with one another;
The engaged couple
An inseparable twosome
Single
Not divided in parts.
The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
Couple
Two items of the same kind
Single
Designed for the use of only one.
A single room
Couple
Something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
Single
Performed by one person, or one on each side.
A single combat
Couple
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
Single
Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
Couple
Link together;
Can we couple these proposals?
Single
(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
Couple
Form a pair or pairs;
The two old friends paired off
Single
(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
Couple
Make love;
Birds mate in the Spring
Single
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Single
(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
Single
(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
Single
(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
Single
One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
Single
(cricket) A score of one run.
Single
(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
Single
(dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
Single
A bill valued at $1.
I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
Single
(UK) A one-way ticket.
Single
(Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
Single
A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
Single
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
Single
A handful of gleaned grain.
Single
A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
Single
(film) A shot of only one character.
Single
A single cigarette.
Single
Synonym of single-driver.
Single
To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
Single
(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
Single
(agriculture) To thin out.
Single
(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
Single
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
Single
To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
Single
(transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.
Single
One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.
Single
Alone; having no companion.
Who single hast maintained,Against revolted multitudes, the causeOf truth.
Single
Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
Single
Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
Single
Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.
Single
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
Single
Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
I speak it with a single heart.
Single
Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
Single
To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark.
His blood! she faintly screamed her mindStill singling one from all mankind.
Single
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
An agent singling itself from consorts.
Single
To take alone, or one by one.
Men . . . commendable when they are singled.
Single
To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; - said of a horse. See Single-foot.
Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed.
Single
A unit; one; as, to score a single.
Single
The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
Single
A handful of gleaned grain.
Single
A game with but one player on each side; - usually in the plural.
Single
A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
Single
A base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
Single
The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number;
He has the one but will need a two and three to go with it
They had lunch at one
Single
Hit a one-base hit
Single
Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual;
Upon the hill stood a single tower
Had but a single thought which was to escape
A single survivor
A single serving
A single lens
A single thickness
Single
Used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals;
Single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals
Single
Not married or related to the unmarried state;
Unmarried men and women
Unmarried life
Sex and the single girl
Single parenthood
Are you married or single?
Single
Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing;
An individual serving
Separate rooms
Single occupancy
A single bed
Single
Having uniform application;
A single legal code for all
Single
Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective;
Judging a contest with a single eye
A single devotion to duty
Undivided affection
Gained their exclusive attention
Single
Involved two individuals;
Single combat
Single
Individual and distinct;
Pegged down each separate branch to the earth
A gift for every single child
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