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Couch is a related term of lodge.


As nouns the difference between couch and lodge

is that couch is couch while lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

As a verb lodge is

to be firmly fixed in a specified position.

couch

English

(wikipedia couch)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from the verb .

Noun

(es)
  • An item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
  • Bed, resting-place.
  • * (seeCites)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Gentle sleep why liest thou with the vile / In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch ?
  • * Bryant
    • Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=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.}}
  • 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.
    • Synonyms
    * (item of furniture) davenport, divan, settee, sofa
    Derived terms
    * couch doctor * couch surfing * uncouched * fly couch
    Descendants
    * German: (l)
    See also
    * armchair * love seat * chesterfield

    Verb

    (es)
  • To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
    • Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
    • If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men.
  • * {{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
    • We'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies.
  • * (rfdate) I. Taylor
    • the half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture
  • To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
  • * (rfdate) (Spenser)
    • an aged squire that seemed to couch under his shield three-square
  • To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
    • Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, / Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
  • To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
  • * (rfdate) T. Burnet
    • The waters couch themselves as may be to the centre of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
  • To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
  • * (rfdate) (Francis Bacon)
    • It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
  • (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 couch a cataract
  • To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He stooped his head, and couched his spear , / And spurred his steed to full career.
    Synonyms
    * : lie down, recline

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) couchier

    Verb

    (es)
  • To phrase in a particular style, to use specific wording for.
    • He couched it as a request, but it was an order.
  • * (rfdate) (Blackwood Magazine)
    • I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=More significantly, rigid deference to Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.}}
  • (archaic) To conceal; to hide
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
    • You have overlooked a fallacy couched in the experiment of the stick.
    Synonyms
    * (phrase in a particular style) explain, express, phrase, term, word

    Etymology 3

    From quitch, from (etyl) cwice, from (etyl) kweke.

    Noun

    (-)
  • couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens , usually considered a weed.
    • Synonyms
    * (Elymus repens) twitch, , quackgrass, scutch grass, witchgrass
    See also
    * (Elymus repens)

    lodge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
  • A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.
  • (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • A den or cave.
  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
    • (Raymond)
  • A collection of objects lodged together.
  • * De Foe
    • the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
  • A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
    • The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.

    Verb

    (lodg)
  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
    • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
    The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
  • To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
    • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
  • To stay in any place or shelter.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Stay and lodge by me this night.
  • * Milton
    • Something holy lodges in that breast.
  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
    • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .

    Derived terms

    * lodger * lodging * lodgement

    Anagrams

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