(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.
Seat
Definition:
(n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
(n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
(n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
(n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
(n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
(n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
(v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
(v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
(v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
(v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
(v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
(v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
(v. i.) To rest; to lie down.
Example Sentences:
(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(3) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(5) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(6) 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).
(7) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(8) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
(9) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
(10) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(11) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(12) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(13) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(14) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(16) The nervous system might therefore be the seat of carcinine biosynthesis and thus the site of action of histamine.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
(18) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
(19) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
(20) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.