Couch

[kaʊtʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.

(noun.) a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer.

卡蜜拉整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

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

(v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

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

(v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

(v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.

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

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

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

(v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

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

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

(v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

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

(v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

亚伦編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Lie, recline, lie down.[2]. Crouch, squat, lie flat.[3]. Stoop, bend down.

v. a. [1]. Express, utter, set forth, clothe in words.[2]. Conceal, hide, cover up.[3]. Lay (a spear) in rest, put in posture of attack.[4]. Depress or remove (a cataract).

n. [1]. Bed, place for rest.[2]. Sofa, seat to recline on.

手打:柴门霍夫

解釋/意思:

v.t. to lay down on a bed &c.: to lower: to level: to arrange in language to express: to depress or remove a cataract in the eye.—v.i. to lie down for the purpose of sleep concealment &c.: to bend or stoop in reverence.—n. any place for rest or sleep: a bed: the lair of a wild beast.—adj. Couch′ant couching or lying down: (her.) of a beast lying down with his head up.—ns. Couch′-fell′ow Couch′-mate a bed-fellow; Couching.—Couch a spear to fix it in its rest at the side of the armour.

n. a grass of the same genus with wheat but a widespread and troublesome weed.

校對:史蒂文