Word Meanings - ACCOUPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To join; to couple. The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.
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See COUPLE-CLOSE (more info) 1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size - COUPLER
One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars. Coupler of an organ, a contrivance by which any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played. - THEMSELVES
The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself. - COUPLET
Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe. - ACCOUPLEMENT
1. The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. Caxton. 2. That which couples, as a tie or brace. - COUPLE-BEGGAR
One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift. - COUPLEMENT
Union; combination; a coupling; a pair. Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser. - ACCOUPLE
To join; to couple. The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall. - COUPLE-CLOSE
A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised. - THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current. - THERMOCOUPLE
A thermoelectric couple. - DIRECT-COUPLED
Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo. Direct-coupled antenna , an antenna connected electrically with one point of a closed oscillation circuit in syntony with it and earthed. - UNCOUPLE
To loose, as dogs, from their couples; also, to set loose; to disconnect; to disjoin; as, to uncouple railroad cars.