COUCH

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couch¹I. substantiv

1. (poetic) culcuş.

2. canapea, sofa, pat de odihnă.

3. (amer) vizuină, bârlog de vidră.

4. (arte) strat fundamental de vopsea, grund (la pictură).

5. cuib, strat de orzoaică (pentru fabricarea berei).

couch¹II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a aşterne, a aşeza, a întinde pe un culcuş.

2. a pune la germinat (orzoaică).

3. (fig.) a formula, a exprima, a expune;

the refusal was couched in polite terms refuzul a fost exprimat în termeni politicoşi.

4. pasiv (poetic) a fi culcat; a se culca.

5. a întinde (suliţa).

6. (agr.) a face grămezi de; a întinde (grâne).

7. to couch under a ascunde sub, în dosul (cu gen.).

◊ (med.) to couch a cataract, to couch a person / to couch a person's eye a face (cuiva) o operaţie de cataractă.

couch¹II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a sta culcat.

2. a se ghemui, a se tupila.

3. (despre animale) a pândi, a sta la pândă.

4. a sta în vizuină.

couch² substantiv (bot.)

1. pir (Triticum repens).

2. iarba-câmpului (Agrostis alba).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I can scarce tell you,” said he, sitting down on the side of the couch, and resting his chin upon his hand.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I and Adele went to the table; but the master did not leave his couch.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Further on he came to a room where a beautiful young lady sat upon a couch; and she welcomed him joyfully, and said, if he would set her free from the spell that bound her, the kingdom should be his, if he would come back in a year and marry her.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

She slept on a couch in the room, waking often to renew the fire, to feed, lift, or wait upon the patient creature who seldom asked for anything, and 'tried not to be a trouble'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is in need of air.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Daisy sat back upon the couch. The nurse took a step forward and held out her hand.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The sister Catherine sat down beside me on the couch.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

In the music room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano. He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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