The difference between Armchair and Couch

When used as nouns, armchair means a chair with supports for the arms or elbows, whereas couch means an item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.


Armchair is also adjective with the meaning: remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

Couch is also verb with the meaning: to lie down.

check bellow for the other definitions of Armchair and Couch

  1. Armchair as a noun:

    A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

  1. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

    Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

    Examples:

    "These days I'm an armchair detective."

  2. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

    Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.

    Examples:

    "He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal [[blog]] on the internet."

    "After the American football game, the armchair [[quarterback]]s talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men."

  1. Couch as a noun:

    An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.

  2. Couch as a noun:

    A bed, a resting-place.

  3. Couch as a noun (art, painting and gilding):

    A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.

  4. Couch as a noun (brewing):

    A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

    Examples:

    "a couch of malt"

  1. Couch as a verb:

    To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

  2. Couch as a verb (archaic):

    To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

  3. Couch as a verb:

    To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

  4. Couch as a verb (transitive):

    To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

  5. Couch as a verb (transitive):

    To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.

  6. Couch as a verb (transitive):

    To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

  7. Couch as a verb (transitive):

    To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.

  8. Couch as a verb (ophthalmology, transitive):

    In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.

  9. Couch as a verb (paper-making, transitive):

    To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.

  10. Couch as a verb (sewing, transitive):

    To attach a thread onto with small stitches in order to add .

  11. Couch as a verb:

    To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

    Examples:

    "He couched it as a request, but it was an order."

  1. Couch as a noun:

    , a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.