coupler en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkʌp(ə)lə/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree English couple Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English coupler From couple + -er.
Meanings
- (archaic) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
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Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
Another example of up-to-date practice is that all locomotives and rolling stock have automatic couplers.
1954 October, 'Boscawen', “The Kowloon-Canton Railway of Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:
- A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
- A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
- An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| couplers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
acoustic coupler · photocoupler · coupleress · Janney coupler · optocoupler
Synonyms
Translations (7)
nb kobling (anything that couples things together) · cy cyplydd (anything that couples things together) · cs spojka (anything that couples things together) · cy cyplwr (anything that couples things together) · cs spřáhlo (anything that couples things together) · pl sprzęg (anything that couples things together) · bg съединител (anything that couples things together)