Couch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

   “[…] I want to try to describe my efforts to take psychoanalysis as a method off the couch and into the work of creating and using a political conference table.”

2. isim A bed, a resting-place.

   “O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, […] O thou dull God, why lyeſt thou with the vilde, / In loathſome Beds, and leau'st the Kingly Couch, / A Watch-caſe, or a common Larum-Bell?”

3. isim The den of an otter.

   “A couch was located under the roots of an uprooted tree in a medium dense spruce patch and the second couch was located under a free standing spruce along a regulation channel.”

4. isim A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
5. isim A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

   “a couch of malt”

6. isim Psychotherapy.

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

7. isim 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.”

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

   “Why did you ſo, doth not the Gentleman / Deſerue as full as fortunate a bed, / As euer Beatrice ſhall couch upon?”

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

   “At laſt, as thro an open Plain they yode, / They ſpy'd a Knight, that towards pricked fair, / And him beſide an aged Squire there rode, / That ſeem'd to couch under his Shield three-ſquare, / As if that Age bad him that Burden ſpare, / And yield it thoſe that ſtouter could it wield: […]”

10. fiil To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

    “But where vnbruſed youth with vnſtuft braine / Doth couch his lims, there, golden ſleepe doth raigne; […]”

11. fiil 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; […]”

12. fiil 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; […]”

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

    “And fairly couching his ſteel-headed Spear, / Him firſt ſaluted with a ſturdy Stroke: / It booted nought Sir Guyon, coming near, / To think ſuch hideous Puiſſance on foot to bear.”

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

    “He invented the grooved wood roll or mandrel on which the thin film of wet paper, as couched from the cylinder mould, was wound and thus the sheet built up to the required thickness, when it was cut from the roll or mandrel along the groove and peeled off to be air dried and sheet calendered.”

16. fiil To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.

    “These curtains we couched in white cord with quaint designs.”

17. fiil To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

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

18. fiil To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

    “Come, come: wee'll couch i'th Caſtle-ditch, till we ſee the light of our Fairies.”

19. isim Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

    “The first field it did was one on which Swedes had been roughly planted the year previously, but it had not been touched since the crop was eaten off, and was then a perfect wilderness of Couch, Docks, Thistles, and Dandelions.”

20. özel isim A surname.
21. özel isim An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States.