Couch vs. Chair

Couchnoun

An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.

Couchnoun

A bed, a resting-place.

Couchnoun

A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.

Couchnoun

(brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

Couchnoun

, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

Couchverb

To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

Couchverb

(archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

Couchverb

To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

Couchverb

(transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

Couchverb

(transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.

Couchverb

(transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

Couchverb

(transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.

Couchverb

In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.

Couchverb

To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.

Couchverb

To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.

Couchverb

To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

Couchverb

To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

Couchverb

To arrange or dispose as in a bed; - sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Couchverb

To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

Couchverb

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

Couchverb

To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

Couchverb

To arrange; to place; to inlay.

Couchverb

To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; - used with in and under.

Couchverb

To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

Couchverb

To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

Couchverb

To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

Couchverb

To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

Couchnoun

A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

Couchnoun

Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

Couchnoun

A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

Couchnoun

A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

Couchnoun

an upholstered seat for more than one person

Couchnoun

a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer

Couchnoun

a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment

Couchverb

formulate in a particular style or language;

Couchnoun

a long upholstered piece of furniture for several people to sit on

Couchnoun

a reclining seat with a headrest at one end on which a psychoanalyst's subject or doctor's patient lies while undergoing treatment

Couchnoun

a coarse grass with long creeping roots, which can be a serious weed in gardens.

Couchverb

express (something) in language of a specified style

Couchverb

lay down

Couchverb

lower (a spear) to the position for attack

Couchverb

treat (a cataract) by pushing the lens of the eye downwards and backwards, out of line with the pupil.

Couchverb

(in embroidery) fix (a thread) to a fabric by stitching it down flat with another thread

Couch

A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, futon, or chesterfield (see Etymology below), is a piece of furniture for seating two or three people. It is commonly found in the form of a bench, with upholstered armrests, and often fitted with springs and tailored cushions.

Chairnoun

An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

Chairnoun

(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

Chairnoun

(rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

Chairnoun

(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

Chairnoun

A distinguished professorship at a university.

Chairnoun

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

Chairverb

(transitive) to act as chairperson at; to preside over

Chairverb

(transitive) to carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory

Chairverb

to award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod

Chairnoun

A movable single seat with a back.

Chairnoun

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

Chairnoun

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

Chairnoun

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

Chairnoun

An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Chairverb

To place in a chair.

Chairverb

To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

Chairverb

To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee, etc.); as, he chaired the meeting.

Chairnoun

a seat for one person, with a support for the back;

Chairnoun

the position of professor;

Chairnoun

the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;

Chairnoun

an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair;

Chairverb

act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;

Chairverb

preside over;

Chair

One of the basic pieces of furniture, a chair is a type of seat. Its primary features are two pieces of a durable material, attached as back and seat to one another at a 90° or slightly greater angle, with usually the four corners of the horizontal seat attached in turn to four legs—or other parts of the seat's underside attached to three legs or to a shaft about which a four-arm turnstile on rollers can turn—strong enough to support the weight of a person who sits on the seat (usually wide and broad enough to hold the lower body from the buttocks almost to the knees) and leans against the vertical back (usually high and wide enough to support the back to the shoulder blades).