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Definition: COUCHING |
COUCHINGNoun1. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through. 2. The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Couch |
Date "COUCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The combination of two or more separately formed, moist plies or furnish layers without the use of an adhesive. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Surgical displacement of the crystalline lens. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COUCHING |
| Specialty definitions using "COUCHING": Knight of the Couching Leopard ♦ vat lined board. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "COUCHING": Couch. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Instruments for Couching and the Extraction of the Cataract. / H. Anderson sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "COUCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COUCHING" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
couching | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COUCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 横卧 (Couched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | couching (cataractopiesis), cataractopiesis (cataractopiesis), sammengauskning, katarakt-extraktion (cataractopiesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cataractopiesis (cataractopiesis), koetsen (couch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huopautus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | couchage en plusieurs jets, cataractopièse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | liegend (couchant, horizontal, lying, reclining, recumbent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταρρακτοπίεση (cataractopiesis), εγχείρηση καταρράκτη (cataractopiesis), επαλληλία στρωμάτων χαρτιού χωρίς συγκολλητικό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "שכב" (laying down, putting to bed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | couching (cataractopiesis), accoppiamento di due stati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 누임. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouchingcay cataractopoiese (cataractopiesis). (various references) cataratopiesis (cataractopiesis), desplazamiento del cristalino en la catarata (cataractopiesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Issacar to kalon epequmhsen anapauomenoV ana meson twn klhrwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Isachar asinus fortis accubans inter terminos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ysachar, an hee asse strong, liggynge bitwix the teermes, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Isachar is a stronge asse he couched him doune betwene .ij. borders |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Si Issachar, asno nga kusganon, Nga nagalubog sa taliwala sa duha ka toril: |
| Croatian | Jisakar je košèat magarac polegao meðu ogradama. |
| Danish | Issakar, det knoglede Æsel, der strækker sig mellem Foldene, |
| Dutch | Issaschar is een sterk gebeende ezel, nederliggende tussen twee pakken. |
| Finnish | Isaskar on luiseva aasi, joka loikoilee karjatarhojen välissä. |
| French | Issacar est un âne robuste, Qui se couche dans les étables. |
| German | Isaschar wird ein knochiger Esel sein und sich lagern zwischen den Hürden. |
| Hungarian | Izsakhár erõs csontú szamár, a karámok közt heverész. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Isakhar itu bagaikan keledai kuat yang berbaring di antara keranjang bebannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa Isakhar itu seekor keledai yang kuat tulangnya, yang akan menderum di antara dua petak. |
| Italian | Issacar è un asino robusto, accovacciato tra un doppio recinto. |
| Korean | 잇 사 갈 은 양 의 우 리 사 이 에 꿇 어 앉 은 건 장 한 나 귀 로 다 |
| Maori | He kaihe kaha a Ihakara, e tapapa ana i waenga o nga moenga hipi e rua: |
| Norwegian | Issakar er et sterktbygget asen, som hviler mellem sine hegn. |
| Portuguese | Issacar é jumento forte, deitado entre dois fardos. |
| Rumanian | Isahar este un mqgar osos, Care se culcq kn grajduri. |
| Spanish | "Isacar es un asno de fuertes huesos, echado entre dos alforjas. |
| Swedish | Isaskar är en stark åsna, som ligger i ro i sin inhägnad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COUCHING": couchings. (additional references) | |
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"COUCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coching, couchi, couchings, coucin, Cowichan, keuschnigg, Kuchino, oohhing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-g-h-i-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: gnocchi, ouching. | |
-2 letters: cochin, unchic. | |
-3 letters: chico, chino, cinch, coign, conch, conic, couch, cough, cuing, incog, ohing. | |
-4 letters: chic, chin, chon, chug, cion, coin, coni, hong, huic, hung, icon, inch, nigh, ouch, unci, unco. | |
-5 letters: chi, cig, cog, con, ghi, gin, gnu, gun, hic, hin, hog, hon, hug, hun, ich, ion, nog, noh, ugh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-g-h-i-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: couchings, crouching. | |
+3 letters: churchgoing, hiccoughing, outcatching, outcoaching. | |
+4 letters: churchgoings. | |
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