Coupling

Definition

couple /'kʌpl/ n ၁။ (ေယာက်္ားမိန္းမ)စံုတြဲ။ married couples ❍ a young/ an elderly couple ❍ Several couples were on the dance floor. ၂။ [sing] (က) ~ (of sth) ႏွစ္ (ခု၊ ေယာက္ စသည္)။ I saw a couple of men get out. ❍ I'll have a couple of dozen eggs. ❍ Could I ask just a couple more questions? (ခ) အနည္းငယ္။ တစ္…ႏွစ္…ေလာက္။ a couple of minutes/ hours/ days/ weeks/ months/ years ❍ She jogs a couple of miles every morning. v ၁။ ~ sb/ sth with sb/ sth ပူးတြဲေနသည္။ ဆက္စပ္ေန သည္။ The name of Mozart is forever coupled with the city of Salzburg. ❍ The bad light, coupled with (ie together with) the wet ground, made play very difficult. ၂။ ~ A on (to B); ~ A and B (together) တြဲခ်ည္ သည္။ ခ်ိတ္တြဲသည္။ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္သည္။ two computers coupled together ❍ The dining car was being coupled (on) (to the last coach). ၃။ ( rhet or euph ) သံဝါသျပဳသည္။ ❏ coupling /'kʌplÇŋ/ n ၁။ [U,C] ႏွစ္ခုပူးတြဲ ျခင္း။ ႏွစ္ခုတြဲ ။ an unusual coupling of Mozart and Grieg concertos on a cassette. ၂။ [C] ၾကားဆက္ပစၥည္း။

Examples

1. ‘Has he had any serious girlfriends?’ ‘A couple.’
2. [couple of] : A couple of police officers were standing at the door.
3. Take a couple of aspirin – you’ll soon feel better.
4. There were a couple of things I wanted to discuss.
5. The couple first met in 1985.
6. A nice young couple have moved in next door.
7. Married couples with children
8. The room was full of dancing couples.
9. The couple at the next table
10. She used to rarely say anything
11. but in the past couple weeks she’s grown confident enough to answer questions out loud.