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couché — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bed noun A piece of furniture for sleeping or resting on.
  • coat noun An outer garment worn over other clothes, typically with sleeves.
  • coating noun A thin layer of a substance applied to a surface.
  • diaper noun An absorbent garment worn around a baby's bottom to catch urine and feces.
  • down adverb From a higher place to a lower one.
  • layer noun A single thickness of material covering a surface, or one level in a stack of such materials.
  • ledge noun A narrow flat shelf sticking out from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
  • lie verb To be in or move into a horizontal, resting position.
  • scum noun A thin layer of dirt, foam, or other impurities that gathers on the surface of a liquid.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
  • stratum noun One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.

Senses

couché is used for these senses in English:

  • coat (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.
  • coating A thin outer layer.
  • diaper (North America, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, out of convenience, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.
  • down (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
  • ledge A layer or stratum.
  • lie (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • recumbent Lying down.
  • scum (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).

bed — full definition

  1. noun A piece of furniture for sleeping or resting on.
  2. noun A plot of ground prepared for growing plants.
  3. noun The bottom of a body of water, such as a river or the sea.
  4. verb To place something in a supportive layer or setting; to embed.

coat — full definition

  1. noun An outer garment worn over other clothes, typically with sleeves.
  2. noun A layer of a substance, such as paint, covering a surface.
  3. noun The fur or hair covering an animal.
  4. verb To cover something with a layer of a substance.

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