Couch vs Sleep - 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)
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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)
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
* {{quote-video
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, 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.
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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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, 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.
(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
(countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
(uncountable) Rheum found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness ).
A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
* 1843 , Joh Müller, ?John Bell, Elements of Physiology (page 808)
To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
(Of a spinning top) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
* 1854 , Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
To accommodate in beds.
To be slumbering in (a state).
To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
* Atterbury
To be dead; to lie in the grave.
* Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 14
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
* Shakespeare
(lb) to wait for a period of time without performing any action
As nouns the difference between couch and sleep
is that couch is couch while sleep is (uncountable) the state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.As a verb sleep is
to rest in a state of reduced consciousness.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)sleep
English
(wikipedia sleep)Noun
- I really need some sleep .
- We need to conduct an overnight sleep''' test to diagnose your '''sleep problem.
- I’m just going to have a quick sleep .
- Wipe the sleep from your eyes .
- The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena
Synonyms
* See also * (rheum) (l) (slang), (l) (UK dialectal), sleepy dust (informal)Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "sleep") * asleep * beauty sleep * big sleep * biphasic sleep * dead sleep * deep sleep * divided sleep * dog sleep * electrosleep * go to sleep * morning sleep * orthodox sleep * polyphasic sleep * put to sleep * REM sleep * segmented sleep * sleep apnea * sleep-charged * sleep debt * sleep deprivation * sleep disorder * sleepful * sleep-learning * sleepless * sleep mask * sleep mode * sleepover * sleep paralysis * sleep schedule * sleep spindle * sleeptalk * sleepyVerb
- You should sleep 8 hours a day .
- A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
- When a top is sleeping , it is spinning but not precessing.
- This caravan can sleep up to four people .
- to sleep a dreamless sleep
- (Tennyson)
- We sleep over our happiness.
- Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- a question sleeps''' for the present; the law '''sleeps
- How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
