Definition of Couch

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Definition of Couch

Couch

To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

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

To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

To arrange; to place; to inlay.

To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

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

A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

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Couch Quotations

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
Matt Damon

I'm pretty much a couch potato.
Wentworth Miller

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
June Jordan

It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart

I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.
Brian Austin Green

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Craig Kilborn

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
Dorothy Stratten

Couch Translations

couch in Dutch is rustbank, Turkse staatsraad, divan
couch in German is Liege
couch in Latin is lectus
couch in Norwegian is sofa, salong
couch in Swedish is soffa, divan

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