Definition of Bed

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Definition of Bed

Bed

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.

(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

A course of stone or brick in a wall.

The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

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.

The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

To place in a bed.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

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.

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.

To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

To go to bed; to cohabit.

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Bed Quotations

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Norman Vincent Peale

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau

Bed Translations

bed in Afrikaans is bed
bed in Danish is bed, seng
bed in Dutch is perk, bed, tuinbed, bloemperk
bed in Finnish is vuode
bed in French is planche, pucier, lit, plate-forme
bed in German is betten, setzen, Bett, Bett, Beet
bed in Italian is letto
bed in Latin is lectus, cubile
bed in Norwegian is seng, seng
bed in Portuguese is cama

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