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.
Advertisement
Examples of "bed" in Sentences
- The bed is by the desk.
- The bed is by the window.
- She is sleeping on the bed.
- A surgical bed is in the center of the room.
- That night, they hesitantly sleep in the same bed.
- Donnelly spent the night with them and witnessed the bed shaking.
- The anxiousness kept her in bed, staying there for sleepless nights.
- By his account, one night he felt drowsy and went to lay down in bed.
- Along the way the group becomes lost, and end up bedding down for the night.
- The rooftop room offers an unobstructed view from the bed into the night sky.
Advertisement
Advertisement