(v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
(v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
(v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
(v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.
(v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
(v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
(v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
(v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
(v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
(v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
(v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
(v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
(v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A changed position of the mirror-reflector in the Rubin-2 thermovision unit as well as the use of an improved model of the couch-chair and a special cassette for electrochemical paper reduce the labour input and raise the information value of the method.
(2) But had it been couched in "more cautious terms or less certain terms may not have been capable of criticism at all".
(3) To make adjustments, the couch longitudinal position was changed 20 times (range -10 to +15 mm).
(4) The gene has been named couch potato (cpo) because several insertional alleles alter adult behavior.
(5) In addition to representing the analysis or the analyst in general, the couch can represent the unconscious, or it may take on the symbolic significance of the analyst's or mother's arms, lap, breasts, or womb.
(6) Treatment was then planned for a 6 MV linear accelerator using a vertical couch extender which enables the patient to remain supine throughout the treatment by increasing the table height to allow the posterior portal to be treated through the couch.
(7) Beside 82% of failures these case reports on cataract-couching contain postoperative complications, epicritically symptomatic for today's clinical pictures, which have been etiologically unknown in 1751.
(8) By going to college and graduate school, I thought I was insulating myself from being broke and sleeping on friends’ couches and being hungry again.
(9) We sat on the couch and watched as Madiba was set free.
(10) Her symptoms were subclinical fever, couch, hemosputum and frequent respiratory infections.
(11) These Church objectives suggest a set of CHA objectives, or functions, couched here in the language of long range planning so that they might lend themselves to strategy making.
(12) Murine squamous carcinoma cells (KLN205) grown in a medium supplemented with the retinoid, 13-cis retinoic acid (RA), had dose-dependent, selective increases in the expression of certain lectin receptors, which correlated with a dramatic decrease in the ability to form pulmonary colonies (P = .0003) (Couch MJ, Pauli BU, Weinstein RS, Coon JS: JNCI, 78:971-977, 1987).
(13) Advantages of isocentrical techniques are thereby maintained, but the number of mechanical movements required is minimized and collimators and couch rotations are not needed.
(14) Blotting, adsorption and elution and inhibition studies clearly demonstrated allergenic cross-reactivity (that is, antigenic cross-reactivity detected by IgE antibodies) between olive, privet, ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and couch grass (Bermuda grass: Cynodon dactylon) pollen components.
(15) Yesterday, David Cameron pushed things along , acknowledging that boosting Holyrood’s status would reopen big questions for England, and making reference to last year’s report by the McKay commission – a plan that offered a somewhat underwhelming vision of “compromise rather than conflict”, but set out a future in which: “Decisions taken in the Commons which have a separate and distinct effect for England (or England-and-Wales)” would largely “be taken only with the consent of a majority of MPs sitting for constituencies in England (or England-and-Wales).” As is usually the case with such texts, most of it was couched in terms of deadened officialspeak.
(16) The intersection of a therapy x-ray beam with steel rails beneath or along the side of the patient support couch should be avoided.
(17) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(18) Landrieu has more or less said that she supports it, personally , but has always couched those statements with a clear desire not to go against her state's consensus.
(19) To our right, four miles of wide clean beach, fringed by bumpy low sand dunes sprouted here and there with couch grass, flowering creepers and low bushes.
(20) This paper develops a theory outlining the formation and evolution of a symbol couched in terms of the neural substrate.
Davenport
Definition:
(n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
(2) With Richard Davenport taking second place – an athlete who has not yet run the A-qualifying standard – Van Commenee can select two further athletes to travel to Daegu.
(3) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(4) These results indicate that the ATPase polypeptide traverses the membrane an even number of times, in support of a previously published topological model (Hager, K. M., Mandala, S. M., Davenport, J. W., Speicher, D. W., Benz, E. J., Jr., and Slayman, C. W. (1986) Proc.
(5) There has also been a complaint made to the government by a company about how the dredging and sea wall contract was handled , and concerns about the cosy relationship between Shorrock and Good Energy – Shorrock was until recently a paid adviser to Good Energy, which is run by his wife, Juliet Davenport.
(6) They’re in the minority.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farmer Peter Edwards, who founded Delabole windfarm, and Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy, which bought the farm in 2002.
(7) Smash, with an all-star cast including Debra Messing, Jack Davenport and Anjelica Huston, began on Sky Atlantic with 75,000 viewers, a 0.4% share of the audience, between 10pm and 11pm on Saturday.
(8) • Jack Davenport stars in Breathless, which starts on ITV at 9pm, 10 October
(9) 'We do have a tendency to come to the same place from totally different directions, have a massive scrap, and then something comes out of it,' says Davenport cheerfully, as we head off for a tour of the edit suites, where a large team of editors and compositors is layering blue-screen images onto footage recorded in nearby Warwickshire woodland.
(10) Having joined Ragdoll in 1991, Davenport had worked with Wood on the Bafta-winning Tots TV and Brum before they co-created Teletubbies, the first show to be aimed squarely, and controversially, at pre-schoolers.
(11) I'm responsible for the finances, and the longer things take, the more money you're spending [Davenport groans in protest].
(12) She’s the best fighter, the best competitor we’ve ever seen in women’s sports,” said Lindsay Davenport as Sharapova saw off another match point.
(13) Davenport said goodbye to the theatre without too much regret when Wood offered him a job as a puppeteer on Tots TV.
(14) Juliet Davenport, founder of Good Energy , said: "This will undermine growth, investment and jobs in a sector which is helping to introduce more competition and new players into the energy market.
(15) Next on Davenport’s wishlist for the site is a solar farm, and an energy storage plant, a technology many believe will be key for renewable energy’s next big breakthrough.
(16) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(17) In the companion paper [Davenport, L., Knutson, J. R., & Brand, L. (1986) Biochemistry (following paper in this issue)], a specific application to a problem of importance of lipid biochemistry--e.g., the origin of the membrane probe order parameter in lipid bilayers--is presented, demonstrating the role rotational heterogeneity may play in biochemical fluorescence.
(18) Juliet Davenport, the founder and chief executive of the renewable power supplier Good Energy , another of the letter's signatories, said Britain needed a more inclusive approach to the way it invested in its energy infrastructure.
(19) The total prevalence of diabetes (15.6%) was lower than the 19.0% described in the study of Aboriginals in Davenport [Wise et al., Med.
(20) Andrew Davenport was born in Folkestone, the son of a Michelin tyres sales manager and a housewife.