Bed

Noun

 * 1) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
 * 2)  One's bed, or a bed as a general place or concept.
 * 3) A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
 * 4) A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
 * 5) The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".
 * 6) An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
 * 7) A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed.
 * 8) A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
 * 9) The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
 * 10) A deposit of ore, coal etc.
 * 11) A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.

Verb

 * 1) To go to a sleeping bed.
 * 2) To put oneself to sleep.
 * 3) To settle, as machinery.
 * 4) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
 * 5) To set out plants in a garden bed.
 * 6)  To have sexual intercourse with.

Derived terms

 * air bed/airbed
 * alveolar bed
 * apple-pie bed
 * bed and breakfast
 * bedbound
 * bedbug
 * bed check
 * bedclothes
 * bed cover
 * bedding
 * bedfast
 * bedfellow
 * bed ground
 * bed hair
 * bed-hop
 * bed jacket
 * bed linen
 * bed load
 * bedload
 * bedmate
 * bed-mould
 * bed of justice
 * bed of pelts
 * bed of roses
 * bedpost
 * bed push
 * bedridden
 * bedroom
 * bed sheet/bedsheet
 * bedside
 * bedspread
 * bedstead
 * bed-sitter
 * breakfast in bed
 * bunk bed
 * camp bed
 * canopy bed
 * capillary bed
 * coal bed
 * creek bed
 * day bed
 * death bed/deathbed
 * divan bed
 * double bed
 * feather bed/featherbed


 * filter bed
 * 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
 * sea bed
 * single bed
 * sleigh bed
 * sofa bed
 * tanning bed
 * test bed
 * truckle bed
 * trundle bed
 * twin bed
 * water bed/waterbed
 * wet the bed
 * bed down
 * bedder
 * bedspread, bedstead, bedpost, poster bed, bedspring, bedsheet, bed head
 * breakfast in bed
 * embed

Pronunciation

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