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Meaning of "couching" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF COUCHING

ˈkaʊtʃɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUCHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Couching is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COUCHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Couching

In embroidery, couching and laid work are techniques in which yarn or other materials are laid across the surface of the ground fabric and fastened in place with small stitches of the same or a different yarn. The couching threads may be either the same color as the laid threads or a contrasting color. When couching threads contrast with laid threads, patterns may be worked in the couching stitches.

Definition of couching in the English dictionary

The definition of couching in the dictionary is a method of embroidery in which the thread is caught down at intervals by another thread passed through the material from beneath. Other definition of couching is a pattern or work done by this method.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUCHING

antipoaching · approaching · catching · Ching · Chongqing · coaching · fetching · hoatching · itching · launching · matching · overarching · scratching · searching · slouching · stitching · stretching · teaching · touching · unreproaching

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUCHING

cou-cou · coucal · couch · couch grass · couch potato · couchant · couche · couchee · coucher · couchette · couchsurfing · cougan · cougar · cough · cough drop · cough medicine · cough mixture · cough sweet · cough syrup · cough up

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUCHING

aching · anything · bewitching · birdwatching · bitching · branching · English Language Teaching · enriching · eye-catching · far-reaching · geocaching · hatching · Kuching · penny-pinching · quenching · retching · scorching · screeching · squelching · twitching · whale watching

Synonyms and antonyms of couching in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COUCHING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «couching» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «couching» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COUCHING

Find out the translation of couching to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of couching from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «couching» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

躺卧
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

majada
570 millions of speakers
en

English

couching
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

काउचिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إضجاع العدسة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

коучинг
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

curral
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

কোচিং
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

bercail
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Couching
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Gautschen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

コーチング
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

코칭
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Couching
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

couching
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஆட்டுக்கிடையுமாக்குவேன்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कोचिंग
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

sarma´dır
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

couching
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Coaching
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

коучинг
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

Coaching
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

couching
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lêplek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

couching
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hvile
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of couching

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COUCHING»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about couching

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUCHING»

Discover the use of couching in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to couching and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Couching at the Door
But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - 'The Second of September 1792' is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist.Sometimes - ...
D. K. Broster, 2007
2
Couching: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
‎2008
3
Needlework Through History: An Encyclopedia
Two variations of couching are called Bokhara and Romanian. Rather than applying the couched cord with a separate thread, Bokhara couching is worked with a continuous thread. Straight stitches are made and then secured with diagonal ...
Catherine Amoroso Leslie, 2007
4
The Principles of Knitting
Couching is an embroidery term for a yarn or cord that is laid across the surface of a fabric and fastened into place with decorative stitches; see Surface Decoration. In knitting, the term is often found in the name of patterns where stitches are ...
June Hiatt, 2012
5
Shay Pendray's Inventive Needlework: Techniques & ...
Since most threads used in gold work are couched, it makes sense to discuss the basics of couching.When you couch, there are two threads involved – a nonstitchable thread that lies on the surface of the work, and a much thinner thread that ...
Shay Pendray, 2011
6
Brief History of Vision and Ocular Medicine
The physician Paulos of Aegina (625–690) described couching the following way : 'We will have the patient sit down faced to the light but not looking at the sun, bandage the healthy eye carefully, – open the lids of the other eye and mark with  ...
Wolfgang H. Vogel, Andreas Berke, 2009
7
Not Your Mama's Stitching: The Cool and Creative Way to ...
Couching. Stitches. Variations on the couching stitch include bunch couching, open pendant couching, and zigzag couching. For bunch couching, you simply bunch up the laying thread between each tying stitch. (You can be all tidy about it , ...
Kate Shoup, 2007
8
Serger Secrets: High-Fashion Techniques for Creating ...
Flatlock Couching Ribbons, yarns, metallic braids, or even a decorative serged chain can be couched onto fabric with your serger. The only limitation you'll encounter is that the couching material must fit between the needle and the knife.
Pam Hastings, Agnes Mercik, Linda Lee Vivian, 2001
9
The register of electors to vote in the choice of ... ...
High Street. Greenfield. Watlington Park and other Lands. Couching Street. Church Lane. Brook Street. High Street. Couching Street. Shirburn Street. Watlington. High Street. Brook Street. John Brown. Couching Street . Fore Green. How Farm.
Oxford county, 1844
10
The register of electors to vote in the choice of ... ...
Couching Street. Couching Street. Brook Street. High Street. Greenfield. Couching Street. Hog Lane and in the Cross. Church Lane. Brook Street. High Street. Market Place and Shirburn Street. Couching Street. Shirburn Street. Watlington.
Oxford county, 1845

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUCHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term couching is used in the context of the following news items.
1
UD, like most schools, continues raising tuition
University officials are couching the increases, which amount to a 1.44 percent bump for in-state students and a 2.37 percent jump for ... «The News Journal, Jul 15»
2
Order for three C-RAD systems from hospital in Norway
The customer also decided on the unique audio-visual couching functionality that supports an interactive gating mode. In the Nordic countries ... «GlobeNewswire, Jul 15»
3
Is America ready to listen to the siren song of socialism?
Sanders, like Obama before him, is couching his radical ideas in inoffensive, moderate-sounding rhetoric. The LIVs are too ignorant to look past ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
4
Greece news live: Banks to remain shut for another two days as …
And that style went down like a lead balloon I suspect in Europe, where people are used to couching disagreement in extremely diplomatic ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Yanis Varoufakis: His finest and most controversial moments
And that style went down like a lead balloon I suspect in Europe, where people are used to couching disagreement in extremely diplomatic ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»
6
Greece news live: EU questions legality of referendum as Euclid …
And that style went down like a lead balloon I suspect in Europe, where people are used to couching disagreement in extremely diplomatic ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Is the Independent Financial Review Panel right to interfere with …
If such proposals were necessary, then couching them in a set of escalating options would have diminished the alarm they have caused. «Slugger O'Toole, Jul 15»
8
Greece news live: EU questions legality of Greek referendum after …
And that style went down like a lead balloon I suspect in Europe, where people are used to couching disagreement in extremely diplomatic ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
9
Charleston suspect's views draw attention to shadowy white …
... couching white nationalist arguments as academic commentary on black inferiority, the immigration threat to whites and other racial issues. «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
10
The Lord is our shepherd in US politics
Liberals and conservatives alike have been couching their arguments in the language of scripture and hymns, marking that latest examples in ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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