1. a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
2. the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed.
3. the bedstead alone.
4. the act of or time for sleeping: Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed.
5. the use of a bed for the night; lodging: I reserved a bed at the old inn.
6. the marital relationship.
7. any resting place: making his bed under a tree.
8. something resembling a bed in form or position.
9. a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown.
10. an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown.
11. the plants in such areas.
12. the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water.
13. a piece or part forming a foundation or base.
14. a layer of rock; a stratum.
15. a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like: a gravel bed for the roadway.
16. Building Trades.
• the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position.
• the upper side of a stone laid in position.
• the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid.
• the natural stratification of a stone: a stone laid on bed.
17. skirt (def. 6b).
18. the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid.
19. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer.
20. a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant.
21. Sports.
• the canvas surface of a trampoline.
• the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley.
• the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened.
22. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, especially the germinative layer beneath the claw.
23. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape.
24. bed and board.

25. to provide with a bed.
26. to put to bed.
27. to plant in or as in a bed.
28. to lay flat.
29. to place in a bed or layer: to bed oysters.
30. to embed, as in a substance: bedding the flagstones in concrete.
31. to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse.

32. to have sleeping accommodations: He says we can bed there for the night.
33. to form a compact layer or stratum.
34. (of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part.
35. to go to bed.

36. bed down,
• to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.).
• to retire to bed: They put out the fire and decided to bed down for the night.

37. to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day: Never try to reason with him when he's gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.
38. go to bed,
• to retire, especially for the night.
• to engage in sexual relations.
39. to have sexual intercourse with.
40. in bed,
• beneath the covers of a bed.
• engaged in sexual intercourse.
41. to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally: Industry was charged with jumping into bed with labor on the issue.
42. to fit a bed with sheets and blankets.
43. to be responsible for one's own actions and their results: You've made your bed—now lie in it.
44. put to bed,
• to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed.
• to lock up (forms) in a press in preparation for printing.
• to work on the preparation of (an edition of a newspaper, periodical, etc.) up to the time of going to press.

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1. a piece of furniture on which to sleep
2. the mattress and bedclothes on such a piece of furniture
3. sleep or rest
4. any place in which a person or animal sleeps or rests
5. a unit of potential occupancy in a hospital or residential institution
6. a place for sexual intercourse
7. sexual intercourse
8. a plot of ground in which plants are grown, esp when considered together with the plants in it
9. the bottom of a river, lake, or sea
10. a part of this used for cultivation of a plant or animal
11. a layer of crushed rock, gravel, etc, used as a foundation for a road, railway, etc
12. a layer of mortar in a masonry wall
13. the underside of a brick, tile, slate, etc, when in position
14. any underlying structure or part
15. a layer of rock, esp sedimentary rock
16. the flat part of a letterpress printing press onto or against which the type forme is placed
17. a layer of solid particles of an absorbent, catalyst, or reagent through which a fluid is passed during the course of a chemical reaction or other process
18. a machine base on which a moving part carrying a tool or workpiece slides
19. a situation of comfort or ease
20. to give birth (to)
21. bed of nails
• a situation or position of extreme difficulty
• a bed studded with nails on which a fakir lies
22. to be ill-tempered from the start of the day
23. go to bed
• to have sexual intercourse (with)
• (of a newspaper, magazine, etc) to go to press; start printing
24. cooperating closely with (another person, organization, government, etc.) esp covertly
25. put to bed
• to finalize work on (a newspaper, magazine, etc) so that it is ready to go to press
• to lock up the type forme of (a publication) in the press before printing
26. to remain in bed, esp because of illness

27. to go to or put into a place to sleep or rest
28. to have sexual intercourse with
29. to place, fix, or sink firmly into position; embed
30. to form or be arranged in a distinct layer; stratify
31. to plant in a bed of soil

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