couple vs one

couple

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

• To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating. 

• To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate. 

• Two or a few, a small number of. 

• Two or (a) small number of. 

• A small number. 

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

• A couple-close. 

• Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. 

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

• Two of the same kind connected or considered together. 

• A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque. 

one

• To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. 

• One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. 

• A joke or amusing anecdote. 

• A particularly special or compatible person or thing. 

• A one-dollar bill. 

• Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". 

• The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. 

• One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 

• The digit or figure 1. 

• The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. 

• The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. 

• The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. 

• The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. 

• The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. 

• Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. 

• Any person (applying to people in general). 

• One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. 

• Any person, entity or thing. 

• Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner. 

• Whole, entire. 

• Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". 

• The same. 

• In agreement. 

• Being a preeminent example. 

• Sole, only. 

• Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. 

• Of a period of time, being particular. 

• Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent. 

• Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. 

• A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.