Couplet vs. Couple — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Couplet and Couple
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Definitions
Couplet➦
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre.
Couple➦
Two people or things of the same sort considered together
A couple of girls were playing marbles
Couplet➦
A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
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
Couplet➦
Two similar things; a pair.
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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Couplet➦
A set of two things, particularly
Couple➦
Link or combine (something) with something else
A sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss
Couplet➦
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
Couple➦
Mate or have sexual intercourse
As middle-class youth grew more tolerant of sex, they started to couple more often
Couplet➦
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in Downtown Los Angeles.
Couple➦
Two items of the same kind; a pair.
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Couplet➦
(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
Couple➦
Something that joins or connects two things together; a link.
Couplet➦
Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
A sudden couplet rushes on your mind.
Couple➦
Two people united, as by betrothal or marriage.
Couplet➦
Two items of the same kind
Couple➦
Two people together.
Couplet➦
A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
Couple➦
(Informal) A few; several
A couple of days.
Couple➦
(Physics) A pair of forces of equal magnitude acting in parallel but opposite directions, capable of causing rotation but not translation.
Couple➦
To link together; connect
Coupled her refusal with an explanation.
Couple➦
(Electricity) To link (two circuits or currents), as by magnetic induction.
Couple➦
(Archaic) To join together in marriage; marry.
Couple➦
To form pairs; join.
Couple➦
To unite sexually; have sexual intercourse.
Couple➦
To join chemically.
Couple➦
Two or few
"Every couple years the urge strikes, to ... haul off to a new site" (Garrison Keillor).
Couple➦
Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
Couple➦
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
Couple➦
(informal) A small number.
Couple➦
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
Couple➦
(physics) A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque.
Couple➦
(architecture) A couple-close.
Couple➦
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Couple➦
Two or (a) small number of.
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.
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.
Couple➦
To join in wedlock; to marry.
Couple➦
(intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
Couple➦
(transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
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.
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.
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.
Couple➦
See Couple-close.
Couple➦
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; - called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
Couple➦
Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
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.
Couple➦
To join in wedlock; to marry.
A parson who couples all our beggars.
Couple➦
To come together as male and female; to copulate.
Couple➦
A small indefinite number;
He's coming for a couple of days
Couple➦
A pair of people who live together;
A married couple from Chicago
Couple➦
A pair who associate with one another;
The engaged couple
An inseparable twosome
Couple➦
Two items of the same kind
Couple➦
Something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
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
Couple➦
Link together;
Can we couple these proposals?
Couple➦
Form a pair or pairs;
The two old friends paired off
Couple➦
Make love;
Birds mate in the Spring
