Meaning of couch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
   uncountable
3. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
   Australia, Canada, Ireland, US
4. An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States.
5. A bed, a resting-place.
6. The den of an otter.
7. A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
8. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
9. Psychotherapy.
   metonymically, usually
10. Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
    figuratively, usually

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Examples

“At a casting workshop, an actor was performing a blank scene […] and he had not bothered to make any choices about why he was on stage, what his motivation was, what he was playing. He had decided who he was and where he was (on a couch with his girlfriend) but had not decided what he wanted. So the performance was flat and lifeless.”

“[…] 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.”

“It's not a particularly unique living room. It has a window that faces the street, two broken-in beige couches, a few end tables, a television (not the latest model), and a dark blue throw rug in the center of it all. Alice sat down on one end of one couch, and I sat down on the other end.”

“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?”

“[A]pproach thy grave / Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

“[H]e and those / Shall bide eternal bedfellows / Where low upon the couch he lies / Whence he never shall arise.”

“The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.”

“The dining room that is typical of the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore differs considerably from the large public dining hall known from other sites such as Perachora or the Argive Heraion. It is small and encloses no more than nine couches, with seven or eight being most common. […] Throughout, we use the term "banquette" to indicate the continuous platform in contrast to "couch," which designates a portion of that banquette reserved for one diner. […] [I]ndividual couches are always marked off by contoured armrests, composed of a single row of fieldstones plastered with clay.”

“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.”

“For the re-lining, the usual method is to strain a new and strong cloth of an even surface upon the stretcher, to rub it down smooth with pumice stone, and then to give it an even couch of paste, a similar couch is then to be applied to the back of the picture after it has been freed from all inequalities; […]”

“Once you have chosen which color of underpainting you will use, you should apply the paint to get the values, lighting, and the likeness perfect. The underpainting is applied using a couch of medium and the paint is worked into that medium in very small amounts and in small areas at a time. […] Your paint should glide and then melt into the couch as you work the paint with your brush.”

“a couch of malt”

“MALTING IN MUNICH. The barley is steeped till the acrospire, in embryo, or seed germ, seems to be quickened; […] As long however as the seed-gum sticks to the husk, it has not been steeped enough for exposure to the underground malt-floor: nor can deficient steeping be safely made up for afterwards by sprinkling the malt couch with a watering can, which is apt to render the malting irregular. […] It [the barley] is now taken out and laid on the couch floor, in a square heap, eight to ten inches high, and it is turned over morning and evening with dexterity, so as to throw the middle portion upon the top and bottom of the new made couch.”

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

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

“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.”

“After he knew that he would have to give up the farm in two years he ploughed it up, had a thin crop of oats, and sowed it again with winter oats. In February, 1914, it was a field of couch.”

“The lateral growth of these underground shoots can be very rapid, so that, from a small patch of couch, a large area of coffee can become infested in a short time.”

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