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Crouching vs Couching - What's the difference?

crouching | couching |

As verbs the difference between crouching and couching

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

As nouns the difference between crouching and couching

is that crouching is the action of the verb crouch while couching is the operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

As an adjective crouching

is that crouches or crouch.

crouching

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb crouch .
  • * 1972 , Richard Adams, (Watership Down)
  • so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That crouches or crouch.
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    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)