couch

psykiatrin sohva

pohjustus

leposohva

ilmaista An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
(quote-book)|year=2009|page=|isbn=978-1-4081-1327-1|passage=At a casting workshop, an actor was performing a blank scene (..) and he had not bothered to make any choices about why he was on stage, what his motivation was, what he was playing. He had decided who he was and where he was (on a couch with his girlfriend) but had not decided what he wanted. So the performance was flat and lifeless.
(quote-book)|year=2010|isbn=978-0-415-47615-7|passage=(..) I want to try to describe my efforts to take psychoanalysis as a method off the couch and into the work of creating and using a political conference table.
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A bed, a resting-place.
(quote-book) O thou dull God, why liest lyeſt thou with the vile vilde, / In loathſome Beds, and leavest|leau'st the Kingly Couch, / A Watch-caſe, or a common alarm Larum-Bell?
(quote-journal)|magazine=(w)|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=O. Everett|year=c. 1811 or 1816|year_published=September 1817|oclc=4604572|passage=Approach thy grave / Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=w:Routledge Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner|year=1896|section=stanza XLVI, lines 19–22|oclc=2026821|passage=He and those / Shall bide eternal bedfellows / Where low upon the couch he lies / Whence he never shall arise.
(quote-book)|year=1963|oclc=483591931|ol=2004261W|passage=The half-dozen pieces (..) were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. (..) The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
(quote-book)|year=1997|page=22|isbn=978-0-87661-183-8|passage=The dining room that is typical of the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore differs considerably from the large public dining hall known from other sites such as Perachora or the Argive Heraion. It is small and encloses no more than nine couches, with seven or eight being most common. (..) Throughout, we use the term "banquette" to indicate the continuous platform in contrast to "couch," which designates a portion of that banquette reserved for one diner. (..) Individual couches are always marked off by contoured armrests, composed of a single row of fieldstones plastered with clay.
puhekieltä A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
(quote-book)|year=1839|page=231|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZlAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA231|oclc=609196706|passage=For the re-lining, the usual method is to strain a new and strong cloth of an even surface upon the stretcher, to rub it down smooth with pumice stone, and then to give it an even couch of paste, a similar couch is then to be applied to the back of the picture after it has been freed from all inequalities; (..)
(quote-book) Your paint should glide and then melt into the couch as you work the paint with your brush.
puhekieltä A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

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(..) Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?

At laſt, as thro an open Plain they yode, / They ſpy'd a Knight, that towards pricked fair, / And him beſide an aged Squire there rode, / That ſeem'd to couch under his Shield three-ſquare, / As if that Age bade bad him that Burden ſpare, / And yield it thoſe that ſtouter could it wield: (..)

The Sea and the Land make one Globe, and the waters couch themſelves, as cloſe as may be, to the Center of this Globe in a Spherical convexity; ſo that if all the Mountains and Hills were ſcal'd, and the Earth made even, the Waters would not overflow its ſmooth ſurface; (..)

It is, at this Day, in uſe, in Gaza, to couch potsherd Pot-Sheards or Veſſels of Earth, in their Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to paſſe it downe in Spouts into Roomes. It is a Device for freshness Freſhneſſe, in great Heats; (..)

And fairly couching his ſteel-headed Spear, / Him firſt ſaluted with a ſturdy Stroke: / It booted nought Sir Guyon, coming near, / To think ſuch hideous Puiſſance on foot to bear.

Stout Deloraine nor sighed, nor prayed, / Nor saint, nor ladye, called to aid: / But he stooped his head, and couched his spear, / And spurred his steed to full career. / The meeting of these champions proud / Seemed like the bursting thunder-cloud.