Bed Synonyms & Definitions

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• BedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
2. (v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
3. (n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
4. (n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
5. (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.
6. (n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
7. (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.
8. (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.
9. (n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
10. (v. t.) To place in a bed.
11. (n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
12. (n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
13. (n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
14. (v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
15. (n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
16. (v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
17. (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
18. (n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
19. (v. t.) To make partaker of ones bed; to cohabit with.
20. (n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
21. (v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
22. (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.

• BDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

• BeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
2. (v. i.) To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
3. (v. i.) To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
4. (v. i.) To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

• BeddingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bed
2. (n.) A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.
3. (n.) The state or position of beds and layers.