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uncouple
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Word definitions for uncouple in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To disconnect or detach one thing from another. 2 (context transitive English) To come loose. 3 To loose, as dogs, from their couples.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncouple \Un*cou"ple\, v. i. To roam at liberty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from un- (2) "opposite of" + couple (v.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch ontcoppelen . Related: Uncoupled ; uncoupling .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds" [syn: decouple ] [ant: couple ]
Usage examples of uncouple.
He sent Scorf out of the room for no good reason while he uncoupled me from the input and output tubes.
Someone uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it.
The young huntbrother uncoupled two of the dogs, and unleashed the only animal that did not share a lead.
That car eleven-twenty, full of money and full of armed guards, gits uncoupled from the Santa Fe and coupled onto the T.
When the locomotive left the station, the passenger cars had been uncoupled and left standing on the track.
She was out there, drifting aimlessly, on a lonely sea of uncoupled madness.
When the jar feeding the inside of his elbow was just about empty, the jar on the floor was just about full, and the two were simply uncoupled from their respective hoses and reversed quickly so that the liquid could be dripped right back into him.
I imagined missing the other car and landing on the tracks in front of the uncoupled end of the train.
The next day, the United States and Great Britain launched Operation Desert Fox, the mission they had halted in November, a limited punitive operation uncoupled from any coercive demands on Saddam.
His long left arm uncoupled like the loosening of the weight of a pile-driver.
Theirs had been uncoupled from the main body of the train, and released into what he could only assume was a siding.
That they are somehow uncoupled from the entropy gradient of the Universe?
The black straps of his go-pack peeled away from his scaled hide as he uncoupled from the device.
Up in the dome, the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige: the weather was right, apparently.
He learned the use and making of nets, as well as the coupling and uncoupling of the dogs.