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Coupling   /kˈəplɪŋ/   Listen
Coupling

noun
1.
A connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together.  Synonym: yoke.
2.
A mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects.  Synonym: coupler.
3.
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.  Synonyms: conjugation, mating, pairing, sexual union, union.  "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"



Couple

verb
(past & past part. coupled; pres. part. coupling)
1.
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.  Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin.  "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
2.
Link together.  Synonyms: couple on, couple up.
3.
Form a pair or pairs.  Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off.
4.
Engage in sexual intercourse.  Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair.



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"Coupling" Quotes from Famous Books



... tobacco-pipe hung from a corner of his mouth. But it was evidently not this pipe that had given him his title; but pipes of a different kind—all of lead, in varying lengths. These were arranged about his waist, somewhat like a long, uneven fringe. And among them was a pipe-wrench, a coupling or ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... In coupling the doctor and the body-snatcher, at the head of this chapter, I did not really mean to convey more than the general association of human experience in the periods of sickness and the close of life. If there was a closer association ...
— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston

... had quickly disappeared. A breakage of the coupling of the luggage-van had first caused the shock to, and then the stoppage of, the train, which in another instant would have been thrown from the top of the embankment into a bog. There was an hour's delay. At last, the road being cleared, the train proceeded, and at half-past eight ...
— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne

... had finished its work in Winesburg and the trainsmen were coupling cars, swinging lanterns and preparing to resume their flight east. George Willard, rubbing his eyes and again wearing the new overcoat, ran down to the station platform afire with curiosity. "Well, here I am. What do you want? You've got something ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... widow! Coupling these facts with the correspondence which I believed I had detected, I grouped them into a little romance, and laid out my friend's future career as confidently as if it had depended only on myself to marry him out of hand, and make all ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards


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