"coupler" meaning in English

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      "word": "acoustic coupler"
    },
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      "word": "coupleress"
    },
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      "word": "Janney coupler"
    }
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        "1": "en",
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      },
      "expansion": "couple + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From couple + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "couplers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coupler (plural couplers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "couples",
          "couples"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "50 36 7 4 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sǎedinitel",
          "sense": "anything that couples things together",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "съединител"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "50 36 7 4 3",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "anything that couples things together",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kobling"
        }
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "couple",
          "couple"
        ],
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together."
      ],
      "id": "en-coupler-en-noun-CAC~6j-T",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "keyboard",
          "keyboard"
        ],
        [
          "organ",
          "organ"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "23 26 4 39 8",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines."
      ],
      "id": "en-coupler-en-noun-bWcSmZO2"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌplə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "coupler"
  ],
  "word": "coupler"
}

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    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "acoustic coupler"
    },
    {
      "word": "coupleress"
    },
    {
      "word": "Janney coupler"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "couple",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "couple + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From couple + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "couplers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coupler (plural couplers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "couples",
          "couples"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "couple",
          "couple"
        ],
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "keyboard",
          "keyboard"
        ],
        [
          "organ",
          "organ"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌplə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎedinitel",
      "sense": "anything that couples things together",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "съединител"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "anything that couples things together",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kobling"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "coupler"
  ],
  "word": "coupler"
}