Coupler vs Clamp - What's the difference?
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Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
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A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp .
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
* Thackeray
To hold or grip tightly.
To modify a numeric value so it lies within a specific range.
(UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
As nouns the difference between coupler and clamp
is that coupler is someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages while clamp is a brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.As a verb clamp is
to fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.coupler
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(wikipedia coupler)Noun
(en noun)clamp
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clover clamp * nipple clampVerb
(en verb)- As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
- The policeman with clamping feet.