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Coughing vs Couching - What's the difference?

coughing | couching |

As verbs the difference between coughing and couching

is that coughing is present participle of lang=en while couching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between coughing and couching

is that coughing is a cough; the act of coughing while couching is the operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

coughing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cough; the act of coughing.
  • * 1855 , Anna Mary Howitt, A school of life (page 63)
  • The good signor's little address was received in a variety of ways: there were titterings and coughings , and there were also a few instances of noble and generous response to poor Leonard's action
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

    couching

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
  • (textiles) Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.
  • (Webster 1913)