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Meaning of bed

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  bed
      n 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" [syn: {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" [syn: {seam}, {bed}]
      6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
         "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn:
         {layer}, {bed}]
      7: 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.
      8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad
         track; "the track bed had washed away"
      v 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: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
         everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
         intimate with this man?" [syn: {sleep together}, {roll in the
         hay}, {love}, {make out}, {make love}, {sleep with}, {get
         laid}, {have sex}, {know}, {do it}, {be intimate}, {have
         intercourse}, {have it away}, {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck},
         {jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie with}, {bed}, {have a go at it},
         {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]
      5: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes
         to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: {go to bed}, {turn in},
         {bed}, {crawl in}, {kip down}, {hit the hay}, {hit the sack},
         {sack out}, {go to sleep}, {retire}] [ant: {arise}, {get up},
         {rise}, {turn out}, {uprise}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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