Write vs Couch - What's the difference?
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(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
(lb) To send written information to.
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(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.
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(lb) To be an author.
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To record (data) mechanically or electronically.
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To fill in, to complete using words.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
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An item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
Bed, resting-place.
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* Shakespeare
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(art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
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To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) I. Taylor
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
* (rfdate) (Spenser)
To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
* (rfdate) T. Burnet
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon)
(paper-making) To transfer (e.g. sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
(medicine) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle.
To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
* Sir Walter Scott
To phrase in a particular style, to use specific wording for.
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(archaic) To conceal; to hide
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens , usually considered a weed.
As nouns the difference between write and couch
is that write is (computing) the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk while couch is couch.As a verb write
is (lb) to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.write
English
Verb
Synonyms
* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See alsoAntonyms
* load, read, retrieveDerived terms
* bewrite * co-write * hand-written * nothing to write home about * overwrite * rewrite * that's all she wrote * underwrite * who writes this stuff? * write down, write-down * write head * write in, write-in * write off, write-off * write once * * write one's own ticket * write-only * write out * writer * write up, write-up * writingNoun
(en noun)- How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
- In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes , the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
References
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English
(wikipedia couch)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from the verb .Noun
(es)- Gentle sleep why liest thou with the vile / In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch ?
- Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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Synonyms
* (item of furniture) davenport, divan, settee, sofaDerived terms
* couch doctor * couch surfing * uncouched * fly couchDescendants
* German: (l)See also
* armchair * love seat * chesterfieldVerb
(es)- Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand.
- If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men.
- We'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies.
- the half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture
- an aged squire that seemed to couch under his shield three-square
- Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, / Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
- The waters couch themselves as may be to the centre of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
- It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
- to couch a cataract
- He stooped his head, and couched his spear , / And spurred his steed to full career.
Synonyms
* : lie down, reclineEtymology 2
From (etyl) couchierVerb
(es)- He couched it as a request, but it was an order.
- I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.
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- You have overlooked a fallacy couched in the experiment of the stick.