Definitions of Couch [ʊtʃ]

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Definition of 'Couch'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) couch
a piece of upholstered furniture for seating usu. two to four people, typically having a back and an armrest at one or both ends.

2.  couch
a long upholstered seat with a headrest at one end, on which a person reclines; lounge.

3.  couch
a bed or other place of rest; any place used for repose.

4.  couch
the lair of a wild beast.

5. (v.t.) couch
to arrange or frame (words, a sentence, etc.); express.

6.  couch
to express indirectly or obscurely:
to couch a threat in pleasant words.

7.  couch
to lower or bend down, as the head.

8.  couch
to lower (a spear, lance, etc.) to a horizontal position, as for attack.

9.  couch
to put or lay down, as for rest or sleep; cause to lie down.

10. (v.i.) couch
to lie at rest or asleep; repose; recline.

11.  couch
to crouch; bend; stoop.

12.  couch
to lie in ambush or in hiding; lurk.

13.  couch
to lie in a heap for decomposition or fermentation, as leaves.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME < AF, OF coucher, OF colcher < L collocāre to put into place =col-col -¹+locāre to put, place; see locate)

Definition of 'Couch'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sofa, couch, lounge
an upholstered seat for more than one person

2. (noun) couch
a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer

3. (verb) couch
a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment

4. (verb) frame, redact, cast, put, couch
formulate in a particular style or language
"I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"

Definition of 'Couch'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) couch
a long comfortable seat for more than one person; = sofa

Definition of 'Couch'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) Couch
to lay upon a bed or other resting place

2. (verb) Couch
to arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun

3. (verb) Couch
to lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed

4. (verb) Couch
to transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying

5. (verb) Couch
to conceal; to include or involve darkly

6. (verb) Couch
to arrange; to place; to inlay

7. (verb) Couch
to put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under

8. (verb) Couch
to treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract

9. (verb) Couch
to lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie

10. (verb) Couch
to lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly

11. (verb) Couch
to bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch

12. (verb) Couch
a bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge

13. (verb) Couch
any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc

14. (verb) Couch
a mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt

15. (verb) Couch
a preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc

Translation of 'Couch'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a type of sofa for sitting or lying on The doctor asked him to lie on the couch.
Afrikaans: rusbank	Arabic: مَضْجَـع، سَرير	Bulgarian: кушетка
Brazilian: divã	Czech: pohovka, lehátko	German: die Couch
Danish: briks	Greek: καναπές	Spanish: sofá, canapé
Estonian: kušett	Farsi: تخت معاینه	Finnish: sohva
French: canapé	Hebrew: סַפָּה	Hindi: खाट, पल
Croatian: kauč	Hungarian: dívány	Indonesian: sofa
Icelandic: sófi; legubekkur	Italian: divano	Japanese: 寝いす
Korean: 소파, 긴의자	Lithuanian: kušetė, sofa	Latvian: kušete; dīvāns
Malay: sofa	Dutch: bank	Norwegian: sofa; behandlingsbenk
Polish: tapczan, kanapa	Persian: تخت معاینه	Pashto: د معاینه چپر کت
Portuguese: marquesa	Romanian: canapea	Russian: кушетка
Slovak: pohovka	Slovenian: kavč	Serbian: sofa
Swedish: dyscha, schäslong, soffa	Thai: เก้าอี้ยาว	Turkish: kanepe, sedir, divan
Taiwanese: 長沙發椅	Ukrainian: кушетка	Urdu: پلنگ، بستر
Vietnamese: ghế trường kỷ	Chinese: 长沙发椅
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