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Coupled vs Adjacent - What's the difference?

coupled | adjacent |

As a verb coupled

is (couple).

As an adjective adjacent is

lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

As a noun adjacent is

something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

As a preposition adjacent is

(us) next to; adjacent to; beside.

coupled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (couple)

    • couple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
  • * 1729 , (Jonathan Swift), (A Modest Proposal)
    • I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders;
  • Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)
  • (label) A small number.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)
    • A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle
  • * 1891 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Red-Headed League)
    • ‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’
  • * 1902 , , Across Coveted Lands :
    • When we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
  • One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
  • (label) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.
  • (label) A couple-close.
  • (label) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
  • * (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
    • It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples ; they should be of the same size and humour.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I'll go in couples with her.

    Usage notes

    * The traditional and still most broadly accepted usage of be used only as a noun and not as a determiner in formal writing. * "A couple of things" or people may be used to mean two of them, but it is also often used to mean any small number. *: The farm is a couple of miles off the main highway [=a few miles away]. *: We’re going out to a restaurant with a couple of friends [=two friends]. *: Wait a couple of minutes [=two minutes or more].

    Synonyms

    * (two partners) * (two things of the same kind) brace, pair * (a small number of) few, handful

    Derived terms

    * bridal couple * coupla * couplezilla * couple-close * galvanic couple * voltaic couple

    Determiner

    (head)
  • (informal) A small number of.

    • Verb

    (coupl)
  • To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
    • Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
    I've coupled our system to theirs.
  • (dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
  • * (rfdate),
    • A parson who couples all our beggars.
  • To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
  • * 1987 Alan Norman Bold & Robert Giddings, Who was really who in fiction, Longman
    • On their wedding night they coupled nine times.
  • * 2001 John Fisher & Geoff Garvey, The rough guide to Crete, p405
    • She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her [...]

    Derived terms

    * coupling (noun) * decouple, decoupled * uncouple

    adjacent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
    • Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
  • Just before, after, or facing.
    • The picture is on the adjacent page .

    Synonyms

    * (lying next to) abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

    Antonyms

    * (lying next to) apart, distant, nonadjacent

    Related terms

    * adjacency * adjacently

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
  • * 1980 , Faber Birren, The textile colorist
    • Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents .
  • * 2011 , Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)
    • Picking out the opposite, the adjacent , and the hypotenuse

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (US) Next to; adjacent to; beside.
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