Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“couples” is a form of

couple

/ˈkʌp.əl/ noun, adjective, determiner, verb

Forms couples coupling coupled copel

  1. noun Two of the same kind connected or considered together. “A couple of police officers appeared at the door.”
  2. noun Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
  3. noun (informal) A small number.
  4. noun One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
  5. noun (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
  6. noun (architecture) A couple-close.
  7. noun That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
  8. adjective (informal, US, Canada) Two or (a) small number of.
  9. determiner (colloquial, US, Canada) Two or a few, a small number of. “A couple fewer people show up every week.”
  10. verb (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another). “Now the conductor will couple the train cars.”
  11. verb (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
  12. verb (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
  13. verb (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
  14. verb (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.

Synonyms

brace twosome few handful pair affix bewed have sex attach put together espouse make love duo duet mates match twain span yoke couplet distich dyad duad mate twin couple on couple up pair off partner off copulate

Antonyms

uncouple

Etymology

From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.]
  2. noun Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace. "A couple of shepherds." Sir P. Sidney. "A couple of drops" Adduson. "A couple of miles." Dickens. "A couple of weeks." Carlyle.
  3. verb To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
  4. verb To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.]

Etymology [F. couple, fr. L. copula a bond, band; co- + apere, aptum, ti join. See Art, a., and cf.Copula.]

Etymology [F. coupler, fr. L. copulare. See Couple, n., and cf. Copulate, Cobble, v.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “couple”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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