Definitions for coupling

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coupling cou·pling

Spelling: [kuhp-ling]

IPA: /ˈkʌp lɪŋ/

Coupling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in coupling (cgilnopu).

Definitions for coupling

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that couples.
2. Machinery. a device for joining two rotating shafts semipermanently at their ends so as to transmit torque from one to the other. Compare clutch1 (def 12a). a part with an inside thread for connecting two pipes of the same diameter. a fitting at the end of a length of hose into which the end of another such length can be screwed or fitted.
3. Railroads. coupler (def 3).
4. Electricity. the association of two circuits or systems in such a way that power may be transferred from one to the other. a device or expedient to ensure this.
5. a short length of plumbing pipe having each end threaded on the inside.
6. the part of the body between the tops of the shoulder blades and the tops of the hip joints in a dog, horse, etc.
7. linkage (def 5).
8. two of the same sort considered together; pair.
9. two persons considered as joined together, as a married or engaged pair, lovers, or dance partners:
10. any two persons considered together.
11. Mechanics. a pair of equal, parallel forces acting in opposite directions and tending to produce rotation.
12. Also called couple-close. Carpentry. a pair of rafters connected by a tie beam or collar beam.
13. a leash for holding two hounds together.
14. Fox Hunting. two hounds:

Idioms

1. a couple of, more than two, but not many, of; a small number of; a few: Also, Informal, a couple.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten, link, or associate together in a pair or pairs.
2. to join; connect.
3. to unite in marriage or in sexual union.
4. Electricity. to join or associate by means of a coupler. to bring (two electric circuits or circuit components) close enough to permit an exchange of electromagnetic energy.

verb (used without object)

1. to join in a pair; unite.
2. to copulate.

Origin of coupling

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at couple, -ing¹

Examples for coupling

This coupling of Sonetchka and myself pleased me so much that I blushed again.

There was no air brake attachment and the coupling was done quickly.

In fact, this is the only coupling in the film that makes any sense.

The coupling was apparently uninjured but the tender and engine were gone.

Sakes alive, the straight it's like the coupling of the cart-house.

This is the coupling of two things—a sensation and a cognition.

Amaryllis flushed a little at the coupling of names, but faced it bravely.

coupling, Skins, Free Agents: Huge in the U.K., one-season flops in the U.S.

The intensity of the coupling, however, varies in different cases.

But though the intensity of the coupling may vary it varies in an orderly way.