ETYM Old Fren. brace, brasse, the two arms, embrace, fathom, French brasse fathom, from Latin bracchia the arms (stretched out), pl. of bracchium arm.
1. A structural member used to stiffen a framework; SYN. bracing.
2. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
3. An appliance that corrects dental irregularities; SYN. braces.
4. Either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material.
5. Rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it.
6. The stock of a tool used for turning a drilling bit; SYN. bitstock.
7. Straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural); SYN. suspender, gallus. + prikaži više

ETYM French couple, from Latin copula a bond, band; co- + apere, aptum, to join. Related to Art, Copula.
1. Two items of the same kind; SYN. doubleton, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad.
2. A pair who associate with one another; SYN. twosome, duo, duet.
3. A pair of people who live together; SYN. mates, match.
> 4. A small indefinite number.
5. Something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines.
In mechanics, a pair of forces acting on an object that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, but do not act along the same straight line. The two forces produce a turning effect or moment that tends to rotate the object; however, no single resultant (unbalanced) force is produced and so the object is not moved from one position to another.
The moment of a couple is the product of the magnitude of either of the two forces and the perpendicular distance between those forces. If the magnitude of the force is F newtons and the distance is d meters then the moment, in newton-meters, is given by.
Moment = Fd. + prikaži više

The act or result of coupling.

ETYM French couplet, dim. of couple. Related to Couple.
A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.
In literature, a pair of lines of verse, usually of the same length and rhymed.
The heroic couplet, consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter, was widely adopted for epic poetry, and was a convention of both serious and mock-heroic 18th-century English poetry, as in the work of Alexander Pope. An example, from Pope’s An Essay on Criticism, is: “A little learning is a dang’rous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”. + prikaži više

1. Something consisting of two identical or similar part
2. One of a pair; specifically; one of two or more words (as guard and ward) in the same language derived by different routes of transmission from the same source

ETYM Italian duo, from Latin duo two. Related to Duet.
A composition for two performers; a duet.

ETYM Latin dyas, dyadis, the number two. Greek: cf. French dyade. Related to two, and cf. Duad.
1. Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.
2. An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
Set of two; bivalent atom, etc.

(Irregular plural: matches).
1. An exact duplicate; SYN. mate.
2. Something that resembles or harmonizes with.
3. Thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction; SYN. lucifer, friction match.<br /> Small strip of wood or paper, tipped with combustible material for producing fire. Friction matches containing phosphorus were first made 1816 in France by François Derosne.
A safety match is one in which the oxidizing agent and the combustible body are kept apart, the former being incorporated into the striking surface on the side of the box, the latter into the match. Safety matches were patented by a Swede, J E Lundström, 1855. Book matches were invented in the us 1892 by Joshua Pusey. + prikaži više

ETYM French paire, Late Lat. paria, Latin paria, pl. of par pair, from par, adj, equal. Related to Apparel, Par equality, Peer an equal.
(Homonym: pare, pear).
1. A poker hand with 2 cards of the same value.
2. A set of two similar things considered as a unit; SYN. brace.
3. Two people considered as a unit.