bed

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[ US /ˈbɛd/ ]
[ UK /bˈɛd/ ]

VERB

furnish with a bed
The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals
place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
have sexual intercourse with
Were you ever intimate with this man?
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
put to bed
The children were bedded at ten o'clock
prepare for sleep
He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
I usually turn in at midnight

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.
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
they found a bed of sandstone
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
he worked in the coal beds
a depression forming the ground under a body of water
he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
the room had only a bed and chair
he sat on the edge of the bed
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
the track bed had washed away
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
a plot of ground in which plants are growing
the gardener planted a bed of roses

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How To Use bed In A Sentence

Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
Fructose is absorbed more slowly than glucose and galactose. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.

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