Partner vs. Couple
Partnernoun
Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
Partnernoun
A member of a business or law partnership.
Partnernoun
A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond.
Partnernoun
Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.
Partnernoun
Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.
Partnernoun
(nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
Partnernoun
(Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.
Partnerverb
To make or be a partner.
Partnerverb
To work or perform as a partner.
Partnernoun
One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer.
Partnernoun
An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.
Partnernoun
A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.
Partnerverb
To associate, to join.
Partnernoun
a person's partner in marriage
Partnernoun
an associate who works with others toward a common goal;
Partnernoun
a person who is a member of a partnership
Partnerverb
provide with a partner
Partnerverb
act as a partner;
Partnernoun
either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity
Partnernoun
a person or group that takes part with another or others in doing something
Partnernoun
any of a number of individuals with interests and investments in a business or enterprise, among whom expenses, profits, and losses are shared
Partnernoun
either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple
Partnernoun
a person with whom one has sex; a lover
Partnernoun
a friendly form of address by one man to another
Partnernoun
a timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass
Partnerverb
be the partner of
Partnerverb
associate or work together as partners
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
