What's the difference between couch and hide?

Couch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
  • (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.

Hide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
  • (v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
  • (v. t.) To remove from danger; to shelter.
  • (v. i.) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
  • (n.) An abode or dwelling.
  • (n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.
  • (n.) The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
  • (n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
  • (v. t.) To flog; to whip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
  • (3) Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places.
  • (4) If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.” “He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.
  • (5) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
  • (6) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
  • (7) What else is government hiding from us – and when will it kill us?
  • (8) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
  • (9) Governments should commit to including PPPs in national accounts and stop hiding their true cost.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
  • (11) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".
  • (12) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
  • (13) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
  • (14) Inspection hides poor practice, and companies become more concerned with the regulator than with residents and relatives.
  • (15) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (16) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
  • (17) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
  • (18) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
  • (19) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
  • (20) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.