to couch

to couch teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: To phrase in a particular style, to use specific wording
He couched it as a request, but it was an order.; To conceal; to hide
You have overlooked a fallacy couched in the experiment of the stick.; To phrase in a certain manner; To lie down; to recline (upon a couch); Bed, resting-place; {n} a seat for ease, bed, layer; {v} to squat or lie down, hide, fix, take off, contain; a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer; To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying; An item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person; To arrange; to place; to inlay; A heap of steeped barley that is cast on the malting floor for germination; To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc; an upholstered seat for more than one person; To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed; {f} recline; lower; ambush; express, put into words; transfer to a couch (Papermaking); 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 couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people. = sofa, settee; To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie; a technique used in embroidery to stitch down one thread with another In quilting, this method allows you to zigzag over thicker threads, thereby attaching them to the surface without putting them through the needle of your sewing machine; To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract; If a statement is couched in a particular style of language, it is expressed in that style of language. The new centre-right government's radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms = phrase. be couched in sth to be expressed in a particular way; a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment; A couch is a narrow bed which patients lie on while they are being examined or treated by a doctor; Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc; To arrange or dispose as in a bed; sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun; A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge; A term that refer to a heap of barley on the malting floor; To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly; a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer; To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; used with in and under; formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"; A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc; to stoop; to crouch; To lay upon a bed or other resting place; To conceal; to include or involve darkly; {i} long upholstered seat; bed, place for resting; animal's lair; board on which paper pulp is dried (Papermaking)