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 coupled ['kʌpld添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 成对的(连接的,共轭的,联系的)

  1. The strike, coupled with the floods, was expected to reduce supplies of food drastically.
    这场罢工,再加上洪水泛滥可能会使食品的供应量大幅度下降。
  2. Her name was coupled with his.
    她的名字与他的连在一起。


coupled
[ adj ]
  1. joined together especially in a pair or pairs

  2. <adj.all>
  3. connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks

  4. <adj.all>


Couple \Cou"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coupled} (k[u^]p"'ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Coupling} (k[u^]p"l[i^]ng).] [F. coupler, fr.
L. copulare. See {Couple}, n., and cf. {Copulate}, {Cobble},
v.]
1. To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or
fasten together; to join.

Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . .
.
And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.
--Shak.

2. To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.]

A parson who couples all our beggars. --Swift.

coupled \coupled\ adj.
1. joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

Syn: conjugate, conjugated.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. connected by a physical link, as railway cars or trailer
trucks. Opposite of {unconnected} or {unlinked}

Syn: joined, linked.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. Mark Obrinsky, an economist with the U.S. League of Savings Institutions, said the March increase, coupled with an overall 9.6 percent jump in February, provide evidence that housing has recovered from its slump in December and January.
  2. "The overnight setback on Wall Street and the weaker dollar, coupled with profit taking, brought share prices sharply lower during early trading," said Taketomi Kikuchi of Sanyo Securites.
  3. To rivals, IBM's reluctance to detail its new technology, coupled with its eagerness to warn that others will have a hard time legally matching it, is an effort to stir doubts about clones and thereby prod customers into buying Big Blue.
  4. A central bank official said that the recovering manufacturing industry coupled with a cooling construction industry indicates an improvement in the quality of economic growth.
  5. To some challengers, the issue is likely to be worth more than the support, especially when criticism of the pay raise could be coupled with a denunciation of the national party truce as an attempt at gag rule.
  6. There was no division, he said. The unchanged dividend was coupled with results BP called 'extremely disappointing.'
  7. Davy's misfortunes, coupled with this industry trend, make it increasingly likely that the company's days as an independent contractor are numbered.
  8. Cash shortages coupled with plans to create smaller local authorities pose a threat to Care in the Community policies, Dr Gary Craig, a health policy expert, said in a report yesterday.
  9. Such a restructuring could be coupled with sale of certain businesses, such as its Cluett Peabody & Co. unit.
  10. Sartre, the French playwright and philosopher whose name will be forever coupled with existentialism and Simone de Beauvoir, died in 1980.
  11. John E. McConnaughy Jr., GEO's chairman and chief executive officer, cited the company's restructuring and cost-cutting efforts coupled with a modest improvement in the oil industry.
  12. The company attributed the improvement to recent cost-cutting efforts coupled with strong growth in long-distance telephone revenue.
  13. This annual stage spectacle, coupled with a colorful art festival, is such a box-office hit that it needs no help from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  14. "I only wish this could be coupled with some concern for my missing daughter.
  15. Alvorsen said salmon prices pretty much rose with the rise of the yen, coupled with a falloff from record catches of the mid-1980s and declining frozen and canned inventories.
  16. Analysts suggest that its minority ownership coupled with the supply arrangement might also help Firestone hold down prices it pays for those tires.
  17. The standoff between the two agencies, coupled with the Reagan administration's failure to recommend any legislative changes in market regulation, has drawn criticism from exchange officials and lawmakers.
  18. Weekend rains, coupled with a five-day forecast calling for more in prime corn and soybean growing regions, put traders on the defensive from the opening bell.
  19. "I believe the stark nature of the essay and the ambiguities within it, when coupled with a profession and public ready to talk about dying in greater detail, produced this massive national response," said Lundberg.
  20. The plan also features an end to U.S. support of the contras coupled with the withdrawal of all Soviet-bloc advisers.
  21. L.A. Gear said the fourth-quarter loss results from its efforts to move slower-moving styles out of its inventory, coupled with significant increases in the volume of its less-profitable international business.
  22. "Then the dollar moved higher on short covering, coupled with cross trading" in which investors buy European currencies by selling the yen, said Shigeru Tamaki, a dealer with the Industrial Bank of Japan.
  23. Kidder's Mr. Jacobson said he turned cool on L.A. Gear stock last week because of its rapid price rise, coupled with his "concern about a little softness in the quarter."
  24. This lack of guidance, coupled with an increasing number of punitive damage awards, raises some significant constitutional questions.
  25. "For a while we were looking at the worst of all worlds, a scenario of extremely high interest rates coupled with a sloppy economy," he said.
  26. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine has even suggested tax cuts that aren't coupled with offsetting tax increases, which would be an egregious violation of the pact.
  27. Interest in the guns has been on the increase since the California shootings, but dealers said it was Bush's announcement Tuesday of the temporary import ban, coupled with Colt's halt in AR-15 sales, that really spurred sales.
  28. A drop in the dollar, coupled with sharp increases in prices of precious metals that traders view as inflation harbingers, also helped depress bond prices.
  29. Admission to the IMF, coupled with participation in the World Bank, is somewhat equivalent to getting an improved credit rating.
  30. But the complete dividend omission coupled with healthy developments in several divisions, heartened even some of the company's skeptics.
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