词典词库读写设置

正在查询…

Learn English词条内容来自 Wiktionary，按 CC BY-SA 4.0 许可使用；每个词条页附有原文链接。单词难度数据来自墨墨背单词，按 CC BY-NC 4.0 许可使用。

couch · Learn English

词典词库读写设置

couch

Wiktionary 原文

/kaʊ̯t͡ʃ/

n.: 长沙发，睡椅，卧榻
vt.: 横躺，表达
vi.: 躺下，蹲伏

中文释义来自 ECDICT

couch¹词源 1

词源链

古法语Old French约 8–14 世纪
couche
派生
中古英语Middle English约 1150–1500 年
couche
继承
英语English
couch

词源说明

From Middle English couche, cowche, from Old French couche, from the verb (see below). Doublet of cwtch.

释义

名词noun

1(Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
2A bed, a resting-place.
3The den of an otter

couch²词源 2

词源链

拉丁语Latin约前 75–公元 3 世纪
collocō‘set in place’
派生
古法语Old French约 8–14 世纪
couchier
派生
中古英语Middle English约 1150–1500 年
couchen

couch³词源 3

词源链

原始日耳曼语Proto-Germanic约前 500–公元 200 年
*kwikwǭ
继承
原始西日耳曼语Proto-West Germanic
*kwikwā
继承
古英语Old English约 450–1150 年
cwice

.

4(art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.

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

6metonymic, usually as "the couch"Psychotherapy.

7(figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.

同族词

派生词 34

同源异形词 1

cwtch

继承

英语English

couch

词源说明

From Middle English couchen, from Old French (se) couchier, (se) colchier (“go to bed, lay down”), from Latin collocāre (“set in place”), from com- (“together, with”) + locāre. Doublet of collocate.

释义

动词verb

1intransitiveTo lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
2intransitiveTo bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
3transitiveTo lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
4transitiveTo arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
5transitiveTo lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
6transitiveTo lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
7(ophthalmology, transitive) 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.
8(papermaking, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.

同族词

派生词 8

couchedness
couch a hogshead
recouch
couch down
couch up
uncouched
couchable
coucher

同源异形词 1

继承

中古英语Middle English约 1150–1500 年

继承

英语English

couch

词源说明

From a variant of quitch, from Middle English quich, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ, from *kwikwaz (“alive, lively”). Related to quick. More at quitch.

释义

名词noun

1Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.