couch

(Australia, Canada, Ireland, US)An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

A bed, a resting-place.

The den of an otter.

(art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.

(brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

a couch of malt

(metonymically, usually)(metonymic, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.

He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.

(figuratively, usually)(figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.

If Kamala Harris replaces Joe Biden in the 2024 election, analysts warn that she will lose to the couch.

(uncountable)Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

(intransitive)To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

Đồng nghĩa: lie down, recline

(intransitive)To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

(transitive)To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

(transitive)To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.

[T]he Sea and the Land make one Globe, and the waters couch themſelves, as cloſe as may be, to the Center of this Globe in a Spherical convexity; ſo that if all the Mountains and Hills were ſcal'd, and the Earth made even, the Waters would not overflow its ſmooth ſurface; […]

(transitive)To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

It is, at this Day, in uſe, in Gaza, to couch Pot-Sheards or Veſſels of Earth, in their Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to paſſe it downe in Spouts into Roomes. It is a Device for Freſhneſſe, in great Heats; […]

(transitive)To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.

(transitive)(ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.

(transitive)(papermaking, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.

(transitive)(sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.

(transitive)To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

He couched it as a request, but it was an order.

Đồng nghĩa: explain, express, phrase, term

(archaic, intransitive)To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

[…] Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?