The difference between Couch and Phrase

Couch as a noun:

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

Couch as a noun:

A bed, a resting-place.

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

A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.

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.

Couch as a verb:

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

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.

Couch as a verb:

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

Couch as a verb (transitive):

To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

Couch as a verb (transitive):

To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.

Couch as a verb (transitive):

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

Couch as a verb (transitive):

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

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.

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.

Couch as a verb (sewing, transitive):

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

Couch as a verb:

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

Couch as a noun:

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

Phrase as a noun:

A short written or spoken expression.

Phrase as a noun (grammar):

A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.

Phrase as a noun (music):

A small section of music in a larger piece.

Phrase as a noun (archaic):

A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

Phrase as a verb (transitive):

To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.

Phrase as a verb (intransitive, music):

To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.

Phrase as a verb (transitive, music):

To divide into melodic phrases.