BED

Bed

A bed is a piece of furniture used as a place to sleep or relax. It has a secondary use as a location to engage in sexual relations.

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bed

Noun

  1. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
    My cat often sleeps on my bed.
    I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
  2. Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
    He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
  3. One's place of sleep or rest.
    Go to bed!
    I had breakfast in bed this morning.
  4. The time for going to sleep or resting in bed.
    I read until bed.
  5. Time spent in a bed.
  6. A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
    He made a bed to sleep in for the night from hay and a blanket.
  7. A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
    We added a new rosebush to our rose bed.
  8. The bottom of a lake or other body of water.
    sea bed, river bed, lake bed
    There's a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
  9. An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
    Oysters are farmed from their beds.
  10. A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed.
    The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
  11. A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
    A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
  12. The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
    The parcels were thrown onto the truck bed before transportation.
  13. A deposit of ore, coal etc.
  14. 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
  15. A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
  16. A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a Radio DJ talks.
  17. Sexual activity.
    Too much bed, not enough rest.
    Is he good in bed?
  18. marriage
  19. The horizontal surface of a building stone.
    the upper and lower beds
  20. A course of stone or brick in a wall.
  21. The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
  22. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
  23. The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

Verb

  1. To go to a bed.
  2. To put oneself to sleep.
  3. To place in a bed.
  4. To furnish with a bed or bedding.
  5. To settle, as machinery.
  6. To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
  7. To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
  8. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
  9. To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
  10. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
  11. To have sexual intercourse with.


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