Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) copel
Ääntäminen
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- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈkʌp.l̩/
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (informal) A small number.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
- (architecture) A couple-close.
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Adjektiivi
Verbi
- (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
- (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
- (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
- (horse racing, transitive) To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
Esimerkit
- I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; [...]
- [...]couple of tables; one of which bore some preparations for supper; while, on the other [...]
- A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle [...]
- ‘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.’
- When we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore[...]
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
- And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
- It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humour.
- I'll go in couples with her.
- Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
- A parson who couples all our beggars.
- On their wedding night they coupled nine times.
- She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her [...]
- I've coupled our system to theirs.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | coupled |
| Imperfekti | coupled |
| Partisiipin preesens | coupling |
| Monikko | couples |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | couples |