Word Meanings - COUPLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to COUPLER)
- ORGANISTA
Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song. - CONNECTOR
One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - ORGANICALNESS
The quality or state of being organic. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - ORGANOLOGY
1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology - ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
A kind of transparent light muslin. - ORGANOGRAPHIST
One versed in organography. - ORGANOGRAPHY
A description of the organs of animals or plants. - ORGAN
A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs - CONNECTIVELY
In connjunction; jointly. - ORGANIZATION
1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also, - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - 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. - CONNECTEDLY
In a connected manner. - ORGANOPHYLY
The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel. - ORGANOGENY
Organogenesis. - SHACKLE
1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine - ORGANONYMY
The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder. - PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - INORGANICAL
Inorganic. Locke. - MEDAL PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes. - SPLAYFOOT
A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot. - DISCONNECT
To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious - DISCONNECTION
The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - SPLAYMOUTH
A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.