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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



... their movements to a track where a plug engine had just backed in with a light caboose car. There was no air brake attachment and the coupling was ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman

... is best told in few words. I had not been at home one week before I found that rumor had been for some months coupling John Gray's name with the name of Mrs. Emma Long, a widow who had but just returned to——, after twelve years of married life in Cuba. John had known her in her girlhood, but there had never been any intimacy or even friendship between them. My sister, ...
— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... had mentioned the name of Edith Dexter, always coupling it with that of Maurice, who she evidently believed was lurking with evil purposes around her home; and Dr. Grey was sorely perplexed to follow the thread that now and then appeared, but failed to guide him to any satisfactory solution of the mystery. He knew that ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... King's acquiescence in this proposal, though he called it a "great and painful sacrifice of his personal feelings." They sought to conciliate her acceptance of it by mentioning her in it by her title of "Queen," and by coupling with it a sanction to her appointment of her law-officers, an Attorney and Solicitor General, an act which could only be exercised by a Queen. And, though a part of the condition of her residence abroad ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... road, but let us love like the first race of men, nearest allied to God, promiscuously they loved, and possessed, father and daughter, brother and sister met, and reaped the joys of love without control, and counted it religious coupling, and 'twas encouraged too by heaven itself: therefore start not (too nice and lovely maid) at shadows of things that can but frighten fools. Put me not off with these delays; rather say you but dissembled love ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn


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