beds

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Your bed is the piece of furniture you sleep on at night. One of a babysitter's most important tasks is telling kids when it's time to get into their beds.

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An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.

Noun
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"

Noun
a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses"

Noun
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away"

Noun
the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.

Noun
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"

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Noun
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds"

Noun
a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

Noun
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone"

Verb
go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"

Verb
have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

Verb
put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o''clock"

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place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

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furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"


n.
An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.

n.
(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

n.
A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

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A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

n.
The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.

n.
A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

n.
See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

n.
The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

n.
A course of stone or brick in a wall.

n.
The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

n.
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

n.
The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.

n.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

n.
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

v. t.
To place in a bed.

v. t.
To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.

v. t.
To furnish with a bed or bedding.

v. t.
To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.

v. t.
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.

v. t.
To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

v. t.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

v. i.
To go to bed; to cohabit.


Bed

Bed , n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. ber, Dan. bed, Sw. b'84dd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.] 1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.
In bed he slept not for my urging it.
2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
George, the eldest son of his second bed.
3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses." Milton. 4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals. 5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.
6. (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc. 7. (Gun.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed. 8. (Masonry) (a) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds. (b) A course of stone or brick in a wall. (c) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid. (d) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. Knight. 9. (Mech.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine. 10. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. 11. (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. &hand; Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed key or bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber; bedmaker, etc. Bed of justice (French Hist.), the throne (F. lit bed) occupied by the king when sitting in one of his parliaments (judicial courts); hence, a session of a refractory parliament, at which the king was present for the purpose of causing his decrees to be registered. -- To be brought to bed, to be delivered of a child; -- often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son. -- To make a bed, to prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order a bed and its bedding. -- From bed and board (Law), a phrase applied to a separation by partial divorce of man and wife, without dissolving the bonds of matrimony. If such a divorce (now commonly called a judicial separation) be granted at the instance of the wife, she may have alimony.

Bed

Bed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedding.] 1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.
3. To furnish with a bed or bedding. 4. To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold. 5. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
6. (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed. 7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair." Shak.

Bed

Bed , v. i. To go to bed; to cohabit.
If he be married, and bed with his wife.

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.

To place in a bed.

To go to bed; to cohabit.

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Usage Examples

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

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