Definitions for BED

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BED bed

Spelling: [bed]

IPA: /bɛd/

Bed is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in BED (bde).

Definitions for BED

noun

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:
5. the use of a bed for the night; lodging:
6. the marital relationship.
7. any resting place:
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:
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:
17. Furniture. skirt (def 6b).
18. the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid.
19. Transportation. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer.
20. Chemistry. 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. Zoology. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, especially the germinative layer beneath the claw.
23. Also called mock, mock mold. Shipbuilding. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape.
24. bed and board.

Idioms

1. get up on the wrong side of the bed, to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day:
2. go to bed, to retire, especially for the night. to engage in sexual relations.
3. go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with.
4. in bed, beneath the covers of a bed. engaged in sexual intercourse.
5. jump / get into bed with, to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally:
6. make a bed, to fit a bed with sheets and blankets.
7. make one's bed, to be responsible for one's own actions and their results:
8. put to bed, to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed. Printing. 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.

Verb phrases

1. bed down, to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.). to retire to bed:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a bed.
2. to put to bed.
3. Horticulture. to plant in or as in a bed.
4. to lay flat.
5. to place in a bed or layer:
6. to embed, as in a substance:
7. to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse.

verb (used without object)

1. to have sleeping accommodations:
2. Geology. to form a compact layer or stratum.
3. (of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part.
4. Archaic. to go to bed.

Origin of BED

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bedd; cognate with Old Frisian, Dutch bed, Old Saxon bed(de), Old High German betti (German Bett), Gothic badi Germanic *badjaⁿ (neuter); a

Examples for BED

That was honestly the scariest thing about putting the show to bed.

For as he tried to sit up, he fell back sick and dizzy on the bed.

"Went to bed so bally sober I couldn't sleep," replied the misguided youth.

His nephew, with his coat stripped off, was sitting on the side of the bed.

As soon as the fellow on the bed would have his breath he would scream.

That was honestly the scariest thing about putting it to bed.

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.

While violent offenses are dramatically down in bed Stuy, pockets of violence persist here.

The belt and the guns were tossed onto the bed, and Hal Dozier sat down.

My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.