n. | 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. |
| 2. | Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. |
| 3. | A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. |
| 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. |
| 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) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds. |
| 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. |
v. t. | 1. | To place in a bed. |
| 2. | To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
v. i. | 1. | To go to bed; to cohabit. |
Noun | 1. | bed - 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" |
| 2. | bed - a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses" |
| 3. | bed - a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" |
| 4. | bed - (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone" |
| 5. | bed - a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" |
| 6. | bed - single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" |
| 7. | bed - 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. |
| 8. | bed - a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away" |
Verb | 1. | bed - furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" |
| 2. | bed - place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil |
| 3. | bed - put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock" |
| 4. | bed - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"Synonyms: be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep with, hump, jazz, love, bang, make out, know |
| 5. | bed - go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn" |
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