bed
see also: BED
Etymology
BED
Noun
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see also: BED
Etymology
From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją.
Cognate with Northern Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, Western Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- with various theories explaining the development in meaning.
Pronunciation Nounbed (plural beds)
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- My cat often sleeps on my bed.
- I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- Go to bed!
- I had breakfast in bed this morning.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- I read until bed.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC ↗:
- George, the eldest son of his second bed.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- Too much bed, not enough rest.
- Clipping of bedroom
- 2 beds, 1 bath
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
- sea bed
- river bed
- There’s a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- Oysters are farmed from their beds.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
- I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.
- A garden plot.
- We added a new bush to our rose bed.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗, page 168 ↗:
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. - Synonyms: tray
- Hyponym: truckbed
- The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- (heading) A horizontal layer or surface.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Synonyms: layer, stratum
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- the upper and lower beds
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
see bed/translations
Verbbed (beds, present participle bedding; simple past and past participle bedded)
- Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- I usually listen to music before I bed.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC ↗:
- For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with). [from early 14th c.]
- Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with, Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland, page 121:
- And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
- Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
- 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iv]:
- Your bedded hair like life in excrements
- To settle, as machinery.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
see bed/translations
BED
Noun
bed (plural beds)
- Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education).
- Initialism of banana equivalent dose
- Initialism of binge eating disorder
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