bed

/bed/
Noun
  1. a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
    • the track bed had washed away
  2. 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.
  3. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
    • slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
  4. a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
    • he worked in the coal beds
  5. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
    • they found a bed of sandstone
  6. a depression forming the ground under a body of water
    • he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
  7. a plot of ground in which plants are growing
    • the gardener planted a bed of roses
  8. 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
Verb
  1. prepare for sleep
    • I usually turn in at midnight
    • He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
  2. have sexual intercourse with
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
  3. put to bed
    • The children were bedded at ten o'clock
  4. place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
  5. furnish with a bed
    • The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals

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