transcription, транскрипция: [ kaʊtʃ ]
( couches, couching, couched)
1.
A couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people.
= sofa, settee
N-COUNT
2.
A couch is a narrow bed which patients lie on while they are being examined or treated by a doctor.
N-COUNT
3.
If a statement is couched in a particular style of language, it is expressed in that style of language. ( WRITTEN )
The new centre-right government’s radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms...
= phrase
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed in/as n