bed

noun beds

1. countable A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. My cat often sleeps on my bed.
2. countable A mattress. I find her bed too soft.
3. countable A bedframe. That huge wood bed is too heavy for us to carry it that far.
4. countable, uncountable A prepared spot in which to spend the night. When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
5. countable, uncountable, usually, after a preposition One's place of sleep or rest. Go to bed!
6. uncountable, usually, after a preposition Sleep; rest; getting to sleep. He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
7. uncountable, usually, after a preposition The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. I read until bed.
8. countable The equipment, staffing, etc., required for a patient in a medical institution. We have a patient who needs a bed right away.
9. uncountable Time spent in a bed. I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary.
10. countable, figuratively, uncountable Marriage. George, the eldest son of his second bed.
11. figuratively, uncountable Sexual activity. Too much bed, not enough rest.
12. abbreviation, clipping, countable, uncountable Clipping of bedroom 2 beds, 1 bath
13. countable, uncountable A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
14. countable The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. sea bed
15. countable, uncountable An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found. Oysters are farmed from their beds.
16. countable, uncountable A planted plot of land, a garden plot. We added a new bush to our rose bed.
17. countable, uncountable A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid. A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
18. countable, uncountable The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
19. Canada, US, countable, uncountable The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.

    Similar: tray

20. countable, uncountable A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
21. countable, dated, uncountable The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
22. countable, uncountable The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
23. countable, uncountable A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
24. countable, uncountable Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
25. countable, uncountable The taut surface of a trampoline. These 5 judges mark the athlete's staying in the center of the bed, uniformity of bounce heights, and general style.
26. countable, uncountable A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
27. countable 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.

    Similar: layer, stratum

28. countable, uncountable The horizontal surface of a building stone. the upper and lower beds
29. countable, uncountable The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
30. countable, uncountable A course of stone or brick in a wall.

Similar: bed, hay, kip, rack, sack

verb beds · bedding · bedded

1. intransitive To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep. I usually listen to music before I bed.
2. transitive To place in a bed. 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
3. transitive To furnish with a bed or bedding.
4. ambitransitive To have sex (with). 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, […]

   Similar: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, have, know

5. intransitive Of large game animals: to be at rest.
6. transitive To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
7. transitive To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
8. transitive To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
9. transitive To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
10. transitive To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. Your bedded hair like life in excrements
11. To settle, as machinery.

noun BEDs

1. alternative Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education).
2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of banana equivalent dose
3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of binge eating disorder