Couch vs Frame - 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
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, 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)
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
* {{quote-video
, year = 1994
, title = (Reality Bites)
, people = (Winona Ryder)
, role = Lelaina Pierce
, passage = All you do around here, Troy, is eat and couch and fondle the remote control.
}}
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
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
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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.
(obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
(obsolete) To execute; perform.
(obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To profit; avail.
(obsolete) To fit; accord.
(obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
* John Lyly
* Shakespeare
* Landor
* I. Taylor
To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* I. Watts
Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
To position visually within a fixed boundary.
To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
(criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
(intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
(dialectal) To move.
(obsolete) To proceed; to go.
* Shakespeare
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
* Milton
The structure of a person's body.
A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
* , chapter=10
, title= A piece of photographic film containing an image.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
A context for understanding or interpretation.
(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
(film, animation) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
(baseball, slang) An inning.
(engineering, dated, mostly, UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
frame of mind; disposition
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
* Shakespeare
A stage or level of a video game.
* 1982 , Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]
As nouns the difference between couch and frame
is that couch is couch while frame is frame, division of time on a multimedia timeline.couch
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.
Synonyms
* (phrase in a particular style) explain, express, phrase, term, wordEtymology 3
From quitch, from (etyl) cwice, from (etyl) kweke.Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (Elymus repens) twitch, , quackgrass, scutch grass, witchgrassSee also
* (Elymus repens)frame
English
Verb
(fram)- At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame . ? Spenser.
- The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office. ? Shakespeare.
- Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
- When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame , thou must be fain to cast them out. ? Tyndale.
- I will hereafter frame myself to be coy.
- frame my face to all occasions
- We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
- The human mind is framed to be influenced.
- He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could.
- How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
- Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
- The director frames the fishing scene very well.
- How would you frame your accomplishments?
- The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
- The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.
- An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. ? E. Brontë.
- The beauty of this sinful dame / Made many princes thither frame .
Synonyms
* (conspire to incriminate) fit upDerived terms
* beframe * enframe * framable, frameable * inframe * outframe * unframeNoun
(en noun)- These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame .
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- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame , they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- a stocking frame'''; a lace '''frame'''; a spinning '''frame
- to be always in a happy frame
- John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
- When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.