Bed
[bed] or [bɛd]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a plot of ground in which plants are growing; 'the gardener planted a bed of roses'.
(noun.) a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; 'the track bed had washed away'.
(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..
(noun.) a depression forming the ground under a body of water; 'he searched for treasure on the ocean bed'.
(noun.) (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); 'they found a bed of sandstone'.
(verb.) put to bed; 'The children were bedded at ten o'clock'.
(verb.) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil.
(verb.) furnish with a bed; 'The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
(n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
(n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
(n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
(n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
(n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
(n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
(n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
(n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
(n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
(n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
(v. t.) To place in a bed.
(v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
(v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
(v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
Typist: Pearl
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Couch, BERTH, resting-place, place to sleep in.[2]. Raised plot (of ground).[3]. Layer, stratum, seam, vein.
v. a. Embed.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A bed, clean and white, denotes peaceful surcease of worries. For a woman to dream of making a bed, signifies a new lover and pleasant occupation. To dream of being in bed, if in a strange room, unexpected friends will visit you. If a sick person dreams of being in bed, new complications will arise, and, perhaps, death. To dream that you are sleeping on a bed in the open air, foretells that you will have delightful experiences, and opportunity for improving your fortune. For you to see negroes passing by your bed, denotes exasperating circumstances arising, which will interfere with your plans. To see a friend looking very pale, lying in bed, signifies strange and woeful complications will oppress your friends, bringing discontent to yourself. For a mother to dream that her child wets a bed, foretells she will have unusual anxiety, and persons sick, will not reach recovery as early as may be expected. For persons to dream that they wet the bed, denotes sickness, or a tragedy will interfere with their daily routine of business.
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Examples
- They cut his bed-strings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I put the other bottle from under the bed in there too, she said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was a short silence, during which the two spectators approached the bed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And as this,' he added, after these magnanimous words, 'is not a fit scene for the boy--David, go to bed! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- No one could tell from the bodies of these wounded men he would leave in beds at the Palace, that they were Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Not a fragment of bone has been discovered in these beds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Amy was up at dawn, hustling people out of their beds and through their breakfasts, that the house might be got in order. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- So I went down to Quogue with one of my assistants and saw there for miles large beds of black sand on the beach in layers from one to six inches thick--hundreds of thousands of tons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These the finest beds and finest sorts. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Also, there were two double-bedded rooms,--such as they were, the landlord said. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We begged the chamber-maid to conduct us immediately to a good two-bedded room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You must have beds and bedding. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No bed may be without an inexpensive steel spring frame or mattress for the support of the bedding. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Each man carrying a rifle and ammunition, beside bedding and some food and cooking utensils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The bedding and clothing of persons suffering with diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other germ diseases should always be boiled and hung to dry in the bright sunlight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A little bedding besides their clothing and some food had been thrown into the wagon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And nothing for the wounded--no linen, no wine, no bedding? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They carried bedding and hammocks, the latter for transporting their sick and wounded. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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