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Bed

//bɛd// noun, verb

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Noun

1
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. countable
"My cat often sleeps on my bed."
2
Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education). alt-of, alternative
3
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep wordnet
4
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; A prepared spot in which to spend the night. countable, uncountable
"When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket."
5
Initialism of banana equivalent dose. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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6
a plot of ground in which plants are growing wordnet
7
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; One's place of sleep or rest. countable, uncountable, usually
"Go to bed!"
8
Initialism of binge eating disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track wordnet
10
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; Sleep; rest; getting to sleep. uncountable, usually
"He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film."
11
the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. wordnet
12
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. uncountable, usually
"I read until bed."
13
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance wordnet
14
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; Time spent in a bed. uncountable
"I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary."
15
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit wordnet
16
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; Marriage. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"George, the eldest son of his second bed."
17
a depression forming the ground under a body of water wordnet
18
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; Sexual activity. figuratively, uncountable
"Too much bed, not enough rest."
19
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) wordnet
20
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.; Clipping of bedroom. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
"2 beds, 1 bath"
21
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. countable, uncountable
"The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce."
22
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. countable
"sea bed"
23
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found. countable, uncountable
"Oysters are farmed from their beds."
24
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; A garden plot. countable, uncountable
"We added a new bush to our rose bed."
25
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid. countable, uncountable
"A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot."
26
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. countable, uncountable
27
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. Canada, US, countable, uncountable
"The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation."
28
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet. countable, uncountable
29
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. countable, dated, uncountable
30
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned. countable, uncountable
31
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks. countable, uncountable
32
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire. countable, uncountable
33
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.; The taut surface of a trampoline. countable, uncountable
"These 5 judges mark the athlete's staying in the center of the bed, uniformity of bounce heights, and general style."
34
A horizontal layer or surface.; A deposit of ore, coal, etc. countable, uncountable
35
A horizontal layer or surface.; The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below. countable
36
A horizontal layer or surface.; The horizontal surface of a building stone. countable, uncountable
"the upper and lower beds"
37
A horizontal layer or surface.; The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. countable, uncountable
38
A horizontal layer or surface.; A course of stone or brick in a wall. countable, uncountable

Verb

1
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.; To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep. intransitive
"I usually listen to music before I bed."
2
prepare for sleep wordnet
3
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.; To place in a bed. transitive
"For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration"
4
have sexual intercourse with wordnet
5
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.; To furnish with a bed or bedding. transitive

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6
put to bed wordnet
7
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.; To have sex (with). ambitransitive
"And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]"
8
place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil wordnet
9
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.; Of large game animals: to be at rest. intransitive
10
furnish with a bed wordnet
11
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.; To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. transitive
"1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded."
12
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.; To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement. transitive
13
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.; To set out (plants) in a garden bed. transitive
14
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.; To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed. transitive
15
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.; To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. transitive
"Your bedded hair like life in excrements"
16
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.; To settle, as machinery.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”). Cognates Cognate with Scots bed, North Frisian baad, beed, Bēr, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Cimbrian pett, Dutch bed, Dutch Low Saxon bedde, German Bett, Bette, German Low German Bedd, Luxembourgish Bett, Vilamovian bet, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bed, Faroese and Icelandic beð, beður, Norwegian Nynorsk bed, bedd, Swedish bädd, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi), all meaning “bed”. further possible etymology and cognates The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).

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