Couch vs Abide - What's the difference?
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An item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
Bed, resting-place.
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* Shakespeare
* Bryant
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, chapter=1 A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
(art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
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To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) I. Taylor
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
* (rfdate) (Spenser)
To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
* (rfdate) T. Burnet
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon)
(paper-making) To transfer (e.g. sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
(medicine) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle.
To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
* Sir Walter Scott
To phrase in a particular style, to use specific wording for.
* (rfdate) (Blackwood Magazine)
* {{quote-news
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(archaic) To conceal; to hide
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens , usually considered a weed.
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(label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
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*:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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*:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
(label) To endure; to remain; to last.
*1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
*:"The Dude abides ."
(label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
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*:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
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*:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
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(label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
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(label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
*William Shakespeare, Richard II
*:To abide thy kingly doom.
(label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
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*:She could not abide Master Shallow.
(label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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Couch is a related term of abide.
As a noun couch
is couch.As a verb abide is
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English
(wikipedia couch)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from the verb .Noun
(es)- Gentle sleep why liest thou with the vile / In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch ?
- Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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Synonyms
* (item of furniture) davenport, divan, settee, sofaDerived terms
* couch doctor * couch surfing * uncouched * fly couchDescendants
* German: (l)See also
* armchair * love seat * chesterfieldVerb
(es)- Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand.
- If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men.
- We'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies.
- the half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture
- an aged squire that seemed to couch under his shield three-square
- Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, / Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
- The waters couch themselves as may be to the centre of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
- It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
- to couch a cataract
- He stooped his head, and couched his spear , / And spurred his steed to full career.
Synonyms
* : lie down, reclineEtymology 2
From (etyl) couchierVerb
(es)- He couched it as a request, but it was an order.
- I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.
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- You have overlooked a fallacy couched in the experiment of the stick.