couch

IPA: kˈaʊtʃ

(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.

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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