League vs Couple - What's the difference?
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A group or association of cooperating members.
* Denham
An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
(informal) Rugby league.
To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
(measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
* M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
* 1729 , (Jonathan Swift), (A Modest Proposal)
Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)
(label) A small number.
* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)
* 1891 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Red-Headed League)
* 1902 , ,
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One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
(label) 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.
(label) A couple-close.
(label) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(informal) A small number of.
To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
(dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
* (rfdate),
To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
* 1987 Alan Norman Bold & Robert Giddings, Who was really who in fiction, Longman
* 2001 John Fisher & Geoff Garvey, The rough guide to Crete, p405
In informal terms the difference between league and couple
is that league is rugby league while couple is a small number of.As nouns the difference between league and couple
is that league is a group or association of cooperating members while couple is two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.As verbs the difference between league and couple
is that league is to form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support while couple is to join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).As a determiner couple is
a small number of.league
English
(wikipedia league)Etymology 1
(etyl) ligg, from (etyl) ligue, from (etyl) lega, from the verb legare, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the League of Nations
- And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league , nor amity.
- My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League''' and the American '''League in baseball.
- Are you going to watch the league tonight?
Derived terms
* bush league * in a league of one's own * in league (with) * major league * minor league * non-league * out of one's league * seven-league bootsVerb
(leagu)- (South)
Etymology 2
From (m), possibly from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.''
References
* Online Etymology,league* Middle English Dictionary, lege
couple
English
Noun
(en noun)- I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders;
- A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle
- ‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’
Across Coveted Lands:
- When we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore
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- It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples ; they should be of the same size and humour.
- I'll go in couples with her.
Usage notes
* The traditional and still most broadly accepted usage of be used only as a noun and not as a determiner in formal writing. * "A couple of things" or people may be used to mean two of them, but it is also often used to mean any small number. *: The farm is a couple of miles off the main highway [=a few miles away]. *: We’re going out to a restaurant with a couple of friends [=two friends]. *: Wait a couple of minutes [=two minutes or more].Synonyms
* (two partners) * (two things of the same kind) brace, pair * (a small number of) few, handfulDerived terms
* bridal couple * coupla * couplezilla * couple-close * galvanic couple * voltaic coupleDeterminer
(head)Verb
(coupl)- Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
- I've coupled our system to theirs.
- A parson who couples all our beggars.
- On their wedding night they coupled nine times.
- She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her [...]