bed

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A bed (furniture)

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[edit] English

Most common English words: copyright « 4 « late « #529: bed » living » view » although

[edit] Etymology

From Old English bedd, from Proto-Germanic *badjan (“‘dug sleeping-place’”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhedh- (“‘dig’”). Cognate with Dutch bed, German Bett; and (from Indo-European) with Greek βοθυρος ‘pit’, Latin fossa ‘ditch’, Latvian bedre ‘hole’, Welsh bedd, Breton bez ‘grave’; and probably also Russian бодать.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Singular
bed

Plural
beds

bed (plural beds)

  1. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
    My cat often sleeps on my bed.
    I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
  2. (uncountable) One's bed, or a bed as a general place or concept.
    Go to bed!
    He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
    I had breakfast in bed this morning.
  3. A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
    He made a bed to sleep in for the night from hay and a blanket.
  4. A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
    We added a new rosebush to our rose bed.
  5. The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".
    There's a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
  6. An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
    Oysters are farmed from their beds.
  7. A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed.
    The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
  8. A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
    A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
  9. The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
    The parcels were thrown onto the truck bed before transportation.
  10. A deposit of ore, coal etc.
  11. A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
  12. A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a Radio DJ talks.

[edit] Usage notes

Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed, or (US, Southern) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.

See also Appendix:MakeDoTakeHave

[edit] Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun "bed"

[edit] Translations

a piece of furniture to sleep on
a prepared spot to spend the night in
a garden plot
the bottom of a lake or other body of water
an area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found
a flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed
a deposit of ore, coal etc.
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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to bed

Third person singular
beds

Simple past
bedded

Past participle
bedded

Present participle
bedding

to bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)

  1. To go to a sleeping bed.
  2. To put oneself to sleep.
  3. To settle, as machinery.
  4. To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
  5. To set out plants in a garden bed.
  6. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

to go to a sleeping bed
to put oneself to sleep
to settle
to have sexual intercourse with

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[edit] Breton

[edit] Noun

bed m. (plural bedoù)

  1. world

[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From German Beet (“‘bed’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bed/, [b̥eð]

[edit] Noun

bed n. (singular definite bedet, plural indefinite bede)

  1. bed (a garden plot)
[edit] Inflection
    Inflection of “bed”
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bed bedet bede bedene
genitive beds bedets bedes bedenes

[edit] Etymology 2

See bide.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /beːd/, [b̥eðˀ]

[edit] Verb

bed

  1. Past of bide.

[edit] Etymology 3

See bede.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /beːd/, [b̥eðˀ]

[edit] Verb

bed

  1. Imperative of bede.

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

bed n. (plural bedden, diminutive bedje, diminutive plural bedjes)

  1. bed

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Adjective

bed

  1. bad (not good)


This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at bad. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see bed in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Verb

bed

  1. Imperative of bedja.

[edit] Alternative spellings

be (everyday form)

[edit] Volapük

[edit] Noun

bed

  1. Bed.
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