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Word Meanings - ACCOUPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To join; to couple. The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.

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  • COUPLE
    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.

 

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