uncouple
IPA: ʌnkˈʌpʌɫ
verb
- (transitive) To disconnect or detach one thing from another.
- (transitive) To come loose.
- (transitive) To loose, as dogs, from their couples.
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Examples of "uncouple" in Sentences
- The cars can only be uncoupled in a depot.
- Trains had to uncouple and ferry across the river.
- At first no one believes that the train has been uncoupled.
- The switch lever serves to couple and uncouple the couplings.
- Trains are weighed, either coupled in motion or uncoupled in motion.
- The mating tabs support the ring and allow it to be easily uncoupled.
- Classically the motion of the COM is uncoupled from the other motions.
- The journal bearing is functionally uncoupled from the thrust bearing.
- • We should be allowed to uncouple a "to" from its verb with impunity.
- However, mitosis and cytokinesis are separate processes and can be uncoupled.
- This carriage was uncoupled from the train immediately south of the junction.
- We would fix the tax code to uncouple health insurance from employment and let people purchase their own mix of services and coverage.
- The crowd began to uncouple from their conversations, and Floyd launched his dinghy onto the dark waters of the Chateau de Ville Ballroom and Function Facilities.
- If you uncouple the gun issue from other liberal/conservative squabbles you will find that respect for our firearms bearing heritage is way broader than other issues.
- The [UnitedHealth] program is banking on the assumption that if we uncouple paying for drugs with paying for care that doctors will do what they do best, which is doctor.
- In November, when Adafruit offered a bounty to the first person who figured out how to uncouple the Kinect from the Xbox 360, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNET: Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products.
- And if we occasionally want to uncouple our mental state from our actual situation in the world (e.g. by taking powerful drugs, drinking great quantities of alcohol, etc.) we don't want this to render us permanently delusional, however pleasant such delusion might be.
- Argument by Insignification — For any given argument where an overwhelmingly sufficient number of points of evidence is advanced to justify an assertion as to theme or subtext, and where these points of evidence are undeniably manifest in the text, a rejection of significance for each notable element of a work, large or small, recurrent or isolated, may be employed to uncouple the link between evidence and interpretation on each count.
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