English verb: decouple | |||
1. | decouple (contact) disconnect or separate | ||
Samples | Uncouple the hounds. | ||
Synonyms | uncouple | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | disconnect | ||
Antonyms | couple on, couple up, couple | ||
2. | decouple (cognition) regard as unconnected | ||
Samples | You must dissociate these two events!. Decouple our foreign policy from ideology. | ||
Synonyms | dissociate | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart | ||
Antonyms | associate, colligate, link, relate, connect, tie in, link up | ||
3. | decouple (change) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | ||
Domain category | natural philosophy, physics | ||
4. | decouple (change) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | ||
Domain category | electronics | ||