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bed

[bed]

noun, verb, bed⋅ded, bed⋅ding.

–noun

1.	a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.

2.	the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed.

3.	the bedstead alone.

4.	the act of or time for sleeping: Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed.

5.	the use of a bed for the night; lodging: I reserved a bed at the old inn.

6.	the marital relationship.

7.	any resting place: making his bed under a tree.

8.	something resembling a bed in form or position.

9.	a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown.

10.	an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown.

11.	the plants in such areas.

12.	the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water.

13.	a piece or part forming a foundation or base.

14.	a layer of rock; a stratum.

15.	a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like: a gravel bed for the roadway.

16.

Building Trades.

a.	the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position.

b.	the upper side of a stone laid in position.

c.	the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid.

d.	the natural stratification of a stone: a stone laid on bed.

17.	Furniture. skirt (def. 6b).

18.	the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid.

19.	Transportation. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer.

20.	Chemistry. a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant.

21.

Sports.

a.	the canvas surface of a trampoline.

b.	the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley.

c.	the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened.

22.	Zoology. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, esp. the germinative layer beneath the claw.

23.	Also called mock, mock mold. Shipbuilding. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape.

24.	bed and board.

–verb (used with object)

25.	to provide with a bed.

26.	to put to bed.

27.	Horticulture. to plant in or as in a bed.

28.	to lay flat.

29.	to place in a bed or layer: to bed oysters.

30.	to embed, as in a substance: bedding the flagstones in concrete.

31.	to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse.

–verb (used without object)

32.	to have sleeping accommodations: He says we can bed there for the night.

33.	Geology. to form a compact layer or stratum.

34.	(of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part.

35.	Archaic. to go to bed.

—Verb phrase

36.

bed down,

a.	to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.).

b.	to retire to bed: They put out the fire and decided to bed down for the night.

—Idioms

37.	get up on the wrong side of the bed, to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day: Never try to reason with him when he's gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.

38.

go to bed,

a.	to retire, esp. for the night.

b.	to engage in sexual relations.

39.	go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with.

40.

in bed,

a.	beneath the covers of a bed.

b.	engaged in sexual intercourse.

41.	jump or get into bed with, to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally: Industry was charged with jumping into bed with labor on the issue.

42.	make a bed, to fit a bed with sheets and blankets.

43.	make one's bed, to be responsible for one's own actions and their results: You've made your bed—now lie in it.

44.

put to bed,

a.	to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed.

b.	Printing. to lock up (forms) in a press in preparation for printing.

c.	to work on the preparation of (an edition of a newspaper, periodical, etc.) up to the time of going to press.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE bedd; c. OFris, D bed, OS bed(de), OHG betti (G Bett), Goth badi < Gmc *badjaⁿ (neut.); akin to L fodere to dig, OCS bodǫ, Lith bedù I pierce, Welsh bedd a grave; presumably a bed was dug out in the ground

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Language Translation for : BED

Spanish:

licenciatura en Magisterio,

Italian:

lauraeto, *laurea in pedagogia*,

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Bachelor of Education.

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bed (běd) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.
2. A bedstead.
3. A mattress.
4. A place where one may sleep; lodging: found bed and board at an inn.
5. Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution: a maternity ward with 30 beds.
6. A small plot of cultivated or planted land: a flower bed.
7. An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers: a clam bed; an oyster bed.
8. A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food: tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.
9. A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.
10. A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.
11. A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.
12. A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
1. A place where one may sleep; lodging: found bed and board at an inn.
2. Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution: a maternity ward with 30 beds.
3. A small plot of cultivated or planted land: a flower bed.
4. An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers: a clam bed; an oyster bed.
5. A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food: tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.
6. A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.
7. A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.
8. A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.
9. A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
A time at which one goes to sleep: drank milk before bed.
A place for lovemaking.
A marital relationship with its rights and intimacies.
1. A small plot of cultivated or planted land: a flower bed.
2. An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers: a clam bed; an oyster bed.
3. A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food: tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.
4. A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.
5. A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.
6. A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.
7. A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
The bottom of a body of water, such as a stream.
A supporting, underlying, or securing part, especially:
1. A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food: tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.
2. A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.
3. A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.
4. A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.
5. A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
Printing The heavy table of a printing press in which the type form is placed.
The part of a truck, trailer, or freight car designed to carry loads.
Geology
1. A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.
2. A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
A heap of material: a bed of wood chips.

v. bed·ded, bed·ding, beds

v. tr.

To furnish with a bed or sleeping quarters: We bedded our guests down in the study.
To put or send to bed.
To have sexual relations with.
To plant in a prepared plot of soil.
To lay flat or arrange in layers.
1. To embed.
2. To establish; base.

v. intr.

To go to bed.
Geology To form layers or strata.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

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bed

O.E. bed "bed," from P.Gmc. *badjam "sleeping place dug in the ground" (cf. M.Du. bedde, O.H.G. betti, Ger. bett, Goth. badi), from PIE base *bhedh- "to dig, pierce," cf. Hittite beda- "to pierce, prick," Gk. bothyros "pit," L. fossa "ditch," Lith. bedre "to dig," Bret. bez "grave." Both "sleeping" and "gardening" senses are in O.E. Meaning "bottom of a lake, sea, watercourse" is from 1586. The verb meaning "to sleep with" is c.1315. Bedridden is O.E. bedreda, from rida "rider," with -en due to analogy of pp. adjectives. Bedstead (1440) is strictly "the place occupied by a bed." Bedroom (1616) replaced M.E. bedchamber. First record of slang bedroom eyes is 1940s. Bed-bug is from 1809.

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bed
noun
1.	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.	a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses"
3.	a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
4.	(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of sandstone"
5.	a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: seam]
6.	single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: layer]
7.	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.	a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away"
verb
1.	furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"
2.	place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3.	put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
4.	have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together]
5.	prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [ant: arise]

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bed

In addition to the idioms beginning with bed, also see early to bed; get up on the wrong side of bed; go to bed with; make one's bed and lie in it; make the bed; put to bed; should have stood in bed; strange bedfellows.

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bed (běd) Pronunciation Key

A layer of sediments or rock, such as coal, that extends under a large area and has a distinct set of characteristics that distinguish it from other layers below and above it.
The bottom of a body of water, such as a lake, stream, or ocean.

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Bed

Bed\, n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be?r, Dan. bed, Sw. b["a]dd, 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. --Byron.

I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. --Shak.

In bed he slept not for my urging it. --Shak.

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

George, the eldest son of his second bed. --Clarendon.

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. --Milton.

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.

Note: 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. --Shak.

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. --Wordsworth.

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. --Wiseman.

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