(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.
Malt
Definition:
(n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.
(a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
(v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.
(v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(2) One class II mutant carried a Tn10 insertion in or close to malT whereas in the remaining class II mutants the insertions were located at least 4 kb upstream of pulA in a region which may define a new regulatory locus of the maltose operon.
(3) The nucleoside phosphotransferase from malt sprouts contains one Mg2 per dimeric enzyme molecule.
(4) The promoters of all of these operons are strictly controlled by the activator protein MalT.
(5) Investigations on 85Sr containing malt extract broth Aspergillus fumigatus cultures revealed that fungal hyphas did not contain the major proportion of radioactivity, but culture filtrates did, and suggested that a fungal metabolite may be responsible for radiostrontium binding.
(6) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(7) The primary structure of malt carboxypeptidase III has been determined.
(8) The results are discussed in terms of the proposed immune surveillance functions attributed to immunocompetent cells in situ according to the mucosal associated lymphatic tissue (MALT) concept.
(9) Water solutions of Tris maltolate aluminium(III) (Al(malt)3) and aluminium lactate (Al(lac)3) are also effective but the dose-response behavior is less pronounced.
(10) Only lymphomas of the thyroid were of MALT-lymphoma type and contained tumor associated abortive follicles of follicular dendritic cells.
(11) Diagnoses were further compared with independently derived scores of the Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT), and the validity of DSM-III-R was found to be superior.
(12) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(13) All cases also demonstrated features of MALT lymphoma, including CCL cells and lymphoepithelial lesions.
(14) coliforms, E. coli, Streptococci, Staphylococci, yeast, and mould were assayed in raw materials and in the weaning foods based on malting (MWF), popping (PWF), and roller drying (RDF) of wheat and chickpea.
(15) In 8 patients, B lymphocytes infiltrated epithelium, which is a feature characteristic of MALT.
(16) It encouraged hundreds of willing amateurs to transform their own combinations of water, hops, yeast and malted barley into money-making enterprises.
(17) This finding could be another feature reflecting the autonomy of the immune system of mucosae (MALT) in humans.
(18) The white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium metabolized phenanthrene when it was grown for 7 days at 37 degrees C in a medium containing malt extract, D-glucose, D-maltose, yeast extract, and Tween 80.
(19) Because cases of intracistronic complementation have been found, the active lamB product may be an oligomeric protein.-Previously all lambda resistant mutations in the malA region have been shown to map in the malT cistron.
(20) Both the Arran Malt independent distillery and the Arran Brewery run tours.