bed

Nouns

• (n) 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
• (n) a plot of ground in which plants are growing
  • the gardener planted a bed of roses
• (n) a depression forming the ground under a body of water
  • he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
  bottom,
• (n) (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
  • they found a bed of sandstone
• (n) a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
  • he worked in the coal beds
  seam,
• (n) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
  • slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
  layer,
• (n) 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.
• (n) a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
  • the track bed had washed away

Verbs

• (v) furnish with a bed
  • The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals
• (v) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
• (v) put to bed
  • The children were bedded at ten o'clock
• (v) have sexual intercourse with
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?
  be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, hump, jazz, love, bang, make out, know,
• (v) prepare for sleep
  • I usually turn in at midnight
  • He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
  crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in, retire,

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