Bed

English Meaning

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.

1. A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.
2. A bedstead.
3. A mattress.
4. A place where one may sleep; lodging: found bed and board at an inn.
5. Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution: a maternity ward with 30 beds.
6. A time at which one goes to sleep: drank milk before bed.
7. A place for lovemaking.
8. A marital relationship with its rights and intimacies.
9. A small plot of cultivated or planted land: a flower bed.
10. An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers: a clam bed; an oyster bed.
11. The bottom of a body of water, such as a stream.
12. A supporting, underlying, or securing part, especially:
13. A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food: tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.
14. A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.
15. A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.
16. Printing The heavy table of a printing press in which the type form is placed.
17. The part of a truck, trailer, or freight car designed to carry loads.
18. Geology A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.
19. Geology A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
20. A heap of material: a bed of wood chips.
21. To furnish with a bed or sleeping quarters: We bedded our guests down in the study.
22. To put or send to bed.
23. To have sexual relations with.
24. To plant in a prepared plot of soil.
25. To lay flat or arrange in layers.
26. To embed.
27. To establish; base.
28. To go to bed.
29. Geology To form layers or strata.
30. get into bed with Slang To become closely involved with another person or group, as in an intrigue: "The Israelis were experienced at this kind of [covert] ... work, but it was essential that the administration not get into bed with them on this” ( Bob Woodward).
31. go to bed with To have sexual relations with.