couch
IPA: kˈaʊtʃ
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) 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.
- (metonymically, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States.
verb
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- 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.
- (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- (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.
- (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
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Examples of "couch" in Sentences
- I sat on the couch.
- The dog is pottering on the couch.
- I was a couch surfer, stayed in flophouses.
- The Simpsons rush to the couch and sit down.
- The mohair velvet on my couch is incredible.
- I appreciate the couch and the just desserts.
- Stop reverting the semen picture on the couch.
- Couch's principal work was done in ichthyology.
- She loves bouncing on the trampoline and sleeping on the couch.
- Couch was in a media car that was part of the presidential motorcade.
- "And it brings a whole new meaning to the term couch potato," he added.
- We worked very hard, but there wasn't what I call couch time or motivational time.
- I will read to him, do crafts, play cars, pretend the couch is a ship and we are pirates – but I will not play trains.
- The term couch potato could soon become obsolete as Britons switch to watching television at their desks and even on the move.
- All the way around, we are enough of a lazy society, if you will, that the term couch potato has become popularized over the years.
- This seems like the best possible outcome for our 3-D future: sit down, put on some glasses, and your couch is on the 50-yard line.
- I mean, I could claim that my couch is a human with legal rights that are violated by its destruction, but people would laugh at me.
- (Turns out the damn thing was here all along; it had just slipped between cushions of the peasant-skin couch in the Goldman Sachs executive lounge.)
- For years now, the potato has had a bad press, so much so that the phrase "couch potato" is now synonymous with lumpen slobs who never get off the sofa.