Main entry: bed
Definition: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
Usage: he sat on the edge of the bed; the room had only a bed and chair
Main entry: bed
Definition: a plot of ground in which plants are growing
Usage: the gardener planted a bed of roses
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Definition: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
Usage: the track bed had washed away
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Definition: 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.
Definition: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
Usage: slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
Definition: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
Usage: he worked in the coal beds
Definition: a depression forming the ground under a body of water
Usage: he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
Main entry: bed
Definition: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
Usage: they found a bed of sandstone
Main entry: crawl in, retire, sack out, hit the hay, hit the sack, go to bed, go to sleep, turn in, bed, kip down
Definition: prepare for sleep
Usage: I usually turn in at midnight; He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
Main entry: make love, make out, jazz, lie with, know, love, fuck, sleep together, sleep with, roll in the hay, screw, bonk, bang, be intimate, bed, eff, do it, hump, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, get it on, get laid
Definition: have sexual intercourse with
Usage: This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm; Adam knew Eve; Were you ever intimate with this man?
Main entry: bed
Definition: put to bed
Usage: The children were bedded at ten o'clock
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Definition: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
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Definition: furnish with a bed
Usage: The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals