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Definition of 'bed'English
Noun
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A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
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# A prepared spot to spend the night in.
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# (lb) One's place of sleep or rest.
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# Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
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# The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
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# (lb) Time spent in a bed.
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# (lb) Marriage.
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- George, the eldest son of his second bed .
# Sexual activity.
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A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
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# The bottom of a lake or other body of water.
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# An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
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# A garden plot.
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- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
# A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
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# The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
# The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
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# A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
# The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
# A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
# (lb) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
(lb) A layer or surface.
# A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
# (lb) 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.
# (lb) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
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# (lb) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
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# (lb) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Usage notes
Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed , or (qualifier) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.
Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, (term) requires no article after certain prepositions: hence , and so on. The forms (term), etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep.
See also
Derived terms
* air bed/airbed
* alveolar bed
* apple-pie bed
* bed and breakfast
* bed blocker
* bedbound
* bedbug
* bedchamber
* bed check
* bedclothes
* bed cover
* bedder
* bedding
* bedfast
* bedfellow
* bed ground
* bed hair
* bed head
* bed-hop
* bed jacket
* bed linen
* bed load
* bedload
* bedmate
* bed-mould
* bed of justice
* bed of pelts
* bed of roses
* bedpan
* bedpost
* bed push
* bedridden
* bedroom
* bed sheet, bedsheet
* bedside
* bedspread
* bedspring
* bedstead
* bed-sitter, bedsitter
* bed tea
* bed trick
* breakfast in bed
* bunk bed
* camp bed
* canopy bed
* capillary bed
* coal bed
* creek bed
* day bed
* death bed/deathbed
* divan bed
* double bed
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* feather bed/featherbed
* filter bed
* flatbed
* flower bed, flowerbed
* four-poster bed
* French bed
* gatch bed
* get up on the wrong side of the bed
* go to bed
* go to bed with
* Hollywood bed
* hospital bed
* hot bed/hotbed
* in bed
* interbedded
* key bed
* make one's bed and lie in it
* make the bed
* marker bed
* Murphy bed
* nail bed/nailbed
* orthopedic bed
* out of bed
* oyster bed
* pencil-post bed
* pig bed
* pissy bed
* plank bed
* platform bed (see platform)
* procrustean bed
* put to bed
* red under the bed
* river bed
* roller bed
* sea bed
* shit the bed
* single bed
* sleigh bed
* sofa bed/sofa-bed
* sunbed
* take to one's bed
* tanning bed
* test bed
* truckle bed
* trundle bed
* twin bed
* wake up on the wrong side of the bed
* water bed, waterbed
* wet the bed
* you make the bed you lie in
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Verb
( bedd)
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
# To go to a bed. (rfex)
# To place in a bed.
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# To put oneself to sleep. (rfex)
# To furnish with a bed or bedding.
# (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
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.
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- Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded .
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# To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
# To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
# To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
# To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
#* Shakespeare:
- bedded hair
# To settle, as machinery.
Derived terms
* bed down
* embed
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