| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Two items of the same kind together: brace, couplet, doublet, duet, duo, match, pair, two, twosome, yoke. See GROUP, SAME. 2. Two persons united, as by marriage: duo, pair, twosome. See GROUP. | | VERB: | 1. To come or bring together in one's mind or imagination: associate, bracket, connect, correlate, identify, link. See SAME. 2. To join one thing to another: affix, attach, clip2, connect, fasten, fix, moor, secure. See ASSEMBLE. 3. To bring or come together into a united whole: coalesce, combine, compound, concrete, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, join, link, marry, meld, unify, unite, wed, yoke. See ASSEMBLE. 4. To engage in sexual relations with: bed, copulate, have, mate, sleep with, take. Idioms: go to bed with, make love, make whoopee, roll in the hay. See SEX.
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