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US
/ˈbɛd/
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[ UK /bˈɛd/ ]
[ UK /bˈɛd/ ]
VERB
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furnish with a bed
The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals - place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
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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.
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(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
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.