Couch vs Table - What's the difference?
couch | table |
An item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
Bed, resting-place.
* (seeCites)
* 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
, work=The Onion AV Club
(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.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
# An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
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, title= #* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), chapter=Foreword
, title= # A flat tray which can be used as a table.
# (poker, metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.
# A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
# A service of Holy Communion.
A two-dimensional presentation of data.
# A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
#* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
# A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
# (computing) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
# (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= (musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
To put on a table.
(British, Canada) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table ).
(US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
To tabulate; to put into a table.
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
* Francis Bacon
To supply with food; to feed.
(carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
To enter upon the docket.
(nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
As a noun couch
is couch.As a verb table is
.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)table
English
(wikipedia table)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table —but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
The China Governess, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table .}}
Synonyms
* (computing) grid, vectorHypernyms
* (furniture) furniture * (computing) arrayHyponyms
* (computing) hashtableDerived terms
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* (furniture) chairVerb
(tabl)- (Carlyle)
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will start discussing it now.
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
- The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
- to table fines
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
- (Milton)
- to table charges against someone