The difference between Couple and Pair

When used as nouns, couple means two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship, whereas pair means two similar or identical things taken together.

When used as verbs, couple means to join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another), whereas pair means to group into sets of two.

Couple is also determiner with the meaning: two or a few, a small number of.

Couple is also adjective with the meaning: two or (a) small number of.

check bellow for the other definitions of Couple and Pair

  1. Couple as a noun:

    Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

  2. Couple as a noun:

    Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

  3. Couple as a noun (informal):

    A small number.

  4. Couple as a noun:

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

  5. Couple as a noun (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.

  6. Couple as a noun (architecture):

    A couple-close.

  7. Couple as a noun (obsolete):

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

  1. Couple as an adjective (informal, US):

    Two or (a) small number of.

  1. Couple as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "Now the conductor will couple the train cars."

    "I've coupled our system to theirs."

  2. Couple as a verb (transitive, dated):

    To join in wedlock; to marry.

  3. Couple as a verb (intransitive):

    To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

  1. Pair as a noun:

    Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

    Examples:

    "I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair."

  2. Pair as a noun:

    Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

    Examples:

    "Spouses should make a great pair."

  3. Pair as a noun:

    Examples:

    "a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans"

  4. Pair as a noun:

    A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

    Examples:

    "A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders."

  5. Pair as a noun (cards):

    A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

  6. Pair as a noun (cricket):

    A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match

  7. Pair as a noun (baseball, informal):

    A double play, two outs recorded in one play

    Examples:

    "They turned a pair to end the fifth."

  8. Pair as a noun (baseball, informal):

    A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams

    Examples:

    "The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies."

  9. Pair as a noun (rowing):

    A boat for two sweep rowers.

  10. Pair as a noun (slang):

    A pair of breasts

    Examples:

    "She's got a gorgeous pair."

  11. Pair as a noun (Australia, politics):

    The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.

  12. Pair as a noun:

    Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.

    Examples:

    "There were two pairs on the final vote."

  13. Pair as a noun (archaic):

    A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.

  14. Pair as a noun (kinematics):

    In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.

  1. Pair as a verb (transitive):

    To group into sets of two.

    Examples:

    "The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party."

  2. Pair as a verb (transitive):

    To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.

  3. Pair as a verb (politics, slang):

    To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

  4. Pair as a verb (intransitive):

    To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

  5. Pair as a verb (computing):

    to form wireless connection between to devices

  1. Pair as a verb (obsolete):

    To impair.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

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