bed
IPA: bˈɛd
noun
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- 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.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- A garden plot.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- (heading) A layer or surface.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (geology) 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.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- Clipping of bedroom. [A room in a house, apartment, hotel or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.]
- Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education). [Bachelor of Education.]
- Initialism of banana equivalent dose. [(biology) The radiation dose equivalent of consuming an average banana, equal to 0.01 mrem or 0.1 μSv.]
- Initialism of binge eating disorder. [(medicine) Recurrent binge eating, but without the purging associated with bulimia nervosa.]
verb
- Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
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Examples of "bed" in Sentences
- Wow, does that mean that being Canadian, in bed, is just plain rude?
- _To bed, to bed_ was the burden of it to be played with accompanable concent upon the virginals.
- The term 'bed blocker' tends to imply the patient is the cause of the problem, but Dr Donald emphasised that was not the case.
- # posted by Maree : June 16, 2007 3:06 AM love the pink/green bed + double chair i'd remove the "sail" from the bed+ paint the walls
- He turned over in his own bed, _his bed_, and smelt the sweet breath of the honeysuckle coming in at the window, heard the thrushes singing their evening song up the street.
- I miss this bed when I die lie me here in this bed~ where I died a thousand times before where I saw stars and danced and stretched and writhed and sang and swore and called out to a god oh yes ... this bed where
- I disappeared inside my head in this bed where our children were sculpted here, where they first slept, in this bed~ where we feasted yes oh yes all this and more happened in this magnificently simple bed of hardwood and cool
- "Well, Miss," said Matilda, not over half re-assured by the words of her mistress -- "it may be nothing, as you say; but, for my part, I never go to bed a single night in the year, without first _looking under the bed_ to see that nobody is hid away there.
- I found the slips of paper which represented, for example, "doll," "is," "on," "bed" and placed each name on its object; then I put my doll on the bed with the words _is_, _on_, _bed_ arranged beside the doll, thus making a sentence of the words, and at the same time carrying out the idea of the sentence with the things themselves.
- I would post something coherent about wider society's contempt of fandom because it's play engaged in by adults (I think it was The Joy Of Sex which said bed was the only time grownups get to play), the relationship between fan fiction (play) and writing for publication (work), the contempt of each age group for the next younger group, and the hierarchies of literary snobbery in my head, but frankly I'm too knackered. *goes back to bed*
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