noun, verb, bed⋅ded, bed⋅ding.| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 36. | bed down,
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| 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,
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| 39. | go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with. |
| 40. | in bed,
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| 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,
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bed (běd)
n.
A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.
Such a piece of furniture used for rest, recuperation, or treatment.
A supporting, underlying, or securing base or structure, especially an anatomical one.
bed (běd) Pronunciation Key
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go to bed with
Engage in sex with; see go all the way, def. 2.
go to bed with the chickens. Retire very early, as in She made the children go to bed with the chickens. The chickens here alludes to the fact that domestic fowl generally go to sleep at sundown.
Also, get in or into bed with. Form a close association with, as in There's always the danger that the inspectors will get in bed with the industries they're supposed to be inspecting. This usage simply extends the sexual relationship of def. 1 to broader use.
go to bed. Start printing a newspaper or other publication. The allusion here is that the morning newspaper is usually printed sometime during the night before. For example, It's too late for your story; the paper went to bed half an hour ago. [Mid-1800s]