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1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
   "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"
    
2. A plot of ground in which plants are growing
   "the gardener planted a bed of roses"
    
3. A depression forming the ground under a body of water
   "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed";
   - bottom
    
4. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
   "they found a bed of sandstone"
    
5. A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
   "he worked in the coal beds";
   - seam
    
6. Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
   "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach";
   - layer
    
7. The flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper, magazine or book etc.
    
8. A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railway track
   "the track bed had washed away"

1. Furnish with a bed
   "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"
    
2. Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
    
3. Put to bed
   "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
    
4. [informal] Have sexual intercourse
   - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], get it on [informal]
    
5. Prepare for sleep
   "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn";
   - go to bed, turn in [informal], kip down [informal], hit the hay [informal], hit the sack [informal], sack out [N. Amer, informal], go to sleep, retire

Derived forms: bedding, beds, bedded

Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], base, bedroom furniture, copulate, couple, depression, foot, foundation, fundament, furnish, groundwork, lay, mate, natural depression, offer, paddock [Austral, NZ], pair, patch, place, plant, plot, plot of ground, plot of land, pose, position, provide, put, render, set, stratum, substructure, supply, surface, understructure

Antonym: get up

Part of: bedchamber, bedroom, chamber, laminate, press, printing press, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room

Encyclopedia: Bed, Bath and Be Gone