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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024couch /kaʊtʃ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Furniturea long piece of furniture for seating, typically having a back and an armrest;
sofa. - Furniturea long, upholstered seat with a headrest at one end, on which a person lies down during psychoanalysis.
v. - to arrange or frame (words, etc.) in a certain way;
express indirectly:[~ + object]couching a threat in pleasant words.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024couch (kouch or, for 6, 15, ko̅o̅ch),USA pronunciation n. - Furniturea piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.;
sofa. - Furniturea similar article of furniture, with a headrest at one end, on which some patients of psychiatrists or psychoanalysts lie while undergoing treatment.
- Furniturea bed or other place of rest;
a lounge;
any place used for repose. - the lair of a wild beast.
- Wine[Brewing.]the frame on which barley is spread to be malted.
- Printing[Papermaking.]the board or felt blanket on which wet pulp is laid for drying into paper sheets.
- Fine Arta primer coat or layer, as of paint.
- on the couch, [Informal.]undergoing psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.
v.t. - to arrange or frame (words, a sentence, etc.);
put into words;
express:a simple request couched in respectful language. - to express indirectly or obscurely:the threat couched under his polite speech.
- to lower or bend down, as the head.
- to lower (a spear, lance, etc.) to a horizontal position, as for attack.
- to put or lay down, as for rest or sleep;
cause to lie down. - to lay or spread flat.
- Printing[Papermaking.]to transfer (a sheet of pulp) from the wire to the couch.
- Clothingto embroider by couching.
- [Archaic.]to hide;
conceal.
v.i. - to lie at rest or asleep;
repose;
recline. - to crouch;
bend;
stoop. - to lie in ambush or in hiding;
lurk. - to lie in a heap for decomposition or fermentation, as leaves.
- Latin collocāre to put into place, equivalent. to col- col- + locāre to put, place; see locate
- Anglo-French, Old French coucher, Old French colcher
- Anglo-French, Old French, derivative of coucher; (verb, verbal) Middle English couchen
- (noun, nominal) Middle English couche 1300–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: couch /kaʊtʃ/ n - a piece of upholstered furniture, usually having a back and armrests, for seating more than one person
- a bed, esp one used in the daytime by the patients of a doctor or a psychoanalyst
vb - (transitive) to express in a particular style of language: couched in an archaic style
- (when tr, usually reflexive or passive) to lie down or cause to lie down for or as for sleep
- (intransitive) archaic to lie in ambush; lurk
- (transitive) to remove (a cataract) by downward displacement of the lens of the eye
- (transitive) archaic to lower (a lance) into a horizontal position
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French couche a bed, lair, from coucher to lay down, from Latin collocāre to arrange, from locāre to place; see locate |