What's the difference between coucher and cougher?

Coucher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who couches.
  • (n.) One who couches paper.
  • (n.) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
  • (n.) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a saying in France: l’information s’arrête à la porte de la chambre à coucher – information stops at the bedroom door.
  • (2) Iain Coucher, Network Rail chief executive, said: "Passengers care most about trains being on time and we have delivered another record year with punctuality surpassing 91%.
  • (3) Coucher added that the company could therefore charge lower track access charges to train operators, maintaining downward pressure on fares.
  • (4) In 2009 Network Rail's chief executive, Iain Coucher, waived his £300,000 annual bonus but three colleagues received a combined windfall of nearly £800,000.
  • (5) He added: "Punctuality is down to the private train operators who actually run the trains and it should not be used by Mr Coucher to try and prop up a flawed bonus system which is wholly unacceptable for running what is a state monopoly."

Cougher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who coughs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The laboratory findings of the cough sufferers--such as eosinophil percent in venous blood, serum GOT and GPT, urea nitrogen, creatinine, renal function (PSP excretion test and creatinine clearance), and pulmonary function (%FVC, FEV1.0% and %V25)--were not significantly different from those of the non-coughers.
  • (2) From 50% to 90% of chronic coughers may have hyperreactive airways.
  • (3) There were nine coughers and eight noncoughers in the study.
  • (4) Among the nine coughers, eight demonstrated bronchial hyperreactivity.
  • (5) Eight of the nine coughers were rechallenged two to six months following cessation of ACE inhibitor therapy.

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