Family vs. Couple

Familynoun

(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

Familynoun

(countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

Familynoun

(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

Familynoun

A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

Familynoun

(countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

Familynoun

A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

Familynoun

A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Familynoun

Used attributively.

Familyadjective

Suitable for children and adults.

Familyadjective

Conservative, traditional.

Familyadjective

(slang) Homosexual.

Familynoun

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

Familynoun

The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

Familynoun

Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.

Familynoun

Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Familynoun

Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

Familynoun

A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

Familynoun

A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In Zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.

Familynoun

a social unit living together;

Familynoun

primary social group; parents and children;

Familynoun

people descended from a common ancestor;

Familynoun

a collection of things sharing a common attribute;

Familynoun

an association of people who share common beliefs or activities;

Familynoun

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera;

Familynoun

a person having kinship with another or others;

Familynoun

a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Family

In human society, family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of families is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society.

Couplenoun

Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Couplenoun

Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

Couplenoun

(informal) A small number.

Couplenoun

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

Couplenoun

(physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.

Couplenoun

(architecture) A couple-close.

Couplenoun

(obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

Coupleadjective

Two or (a) small number of.

Coupledeterminer

Two or a few, a small number of.

Coupleverb

(transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).

Coupleverb

To join in wedlock; to marry.

Coupleverb

(intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

Couplenoun

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

Couplenoun

Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.

Couplenoun

A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.

Couplenoun

See Couple-close.

Couplenoun

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; - called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

Couplenoun

Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.

Coupleverb

To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.

Coupleverb

To join in wedlock; to marry.

Coupleverb

To come together as male and female; to copulate.

Couplenoun

a small indefinite number;

Couplenoun

a pair of people who live together;

Couplenoun

a pair who associate with one another;

Couplenoun

two items of the same kind

Couplenoun

something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines

Coupleverb

bring two objects, ideas, or people together;

Coupleverb

link together;

Coupleverb

form a pair or pairs;

Coupleverb

make love;

Couplenoun

two people or things of the same sort considered together

Couplenoun

a pair of partners in a dance or game.

Couplenoun

a pair of hunting dogs.

Couplenoun

two collars joined together and used for holding hounds together.

Couplenoun

a pair of rafters.

Couplenoun

a pair of equal and parallel forces acting in opposite directions, and tending to cause rotation about an axis perpendicular to the plane containing them.

Couplenoun

two people who are married or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually

Couplenoun

an indefinite small number

Coupleverb

link or combine (something) with something else

Coupleverb

connect (a railway vehicle or a piece of equipment) to another

Coupleverb

connect (two electrical components) using electromagnetic induction, electrostatic charge, or an optical link

Coupleverb

join to form a pair

Coupleverb

mate or have sexual intercourse