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Sounds | beh'd |
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Rhymes | abed, aforesaid, ahead, and 86 more rhymes in ehd at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep. |
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Examples | "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" |
Parts | bedstead, bedframe; mattress |
Narrower | berth, bunk, built in bed; built-in bed; bunk; bunk bed, bunk; cot, camp bed; couch; deathbed; double bed; four-poster; hammock, sack; marriage bed; Murphy bed; plank-bed; platform bed; sickbed; single bed; sleigh bed; trundle bed, trundle, truckle bed, truckle; twin bed; water bed |
Broader | furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture |
Verbs | bed; bed; bed |
Meaning | A plot of ground in which plants are growing. |
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Examples | "the gardener planted a bed of roses" |
Narrower | asparagus bed; flowerbed, flower bed, bed of flowers; hotbed; seedbed; turnip bed |
Broader | plot, plot of ground, patch |
Meaning | A depression forming the ground under a body of water. |
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Examples | "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" |
Synonyms | bottom |
Narrower | lake bed, lake bottom; ocean floor, ocean bottom, seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jones; riverbed, river bottom; streambed, creek bed |
Broader | natural depression, depression |
Meaning | (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock). |
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Examples | "they found a bed of standstone" |
Category | geology |
Narrower | ore bed |
Broader | stratum |
Meaning | A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit. |
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Examples | "he worked in the coal beds" |
Synonyms | seam |
Narrower | coal seam |
Broader | stratum |
Meaning | Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance. |
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Examples | "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" |
Synonyms | layer |
Part of | laminate |
Narrower | backing, mount; blanket; course, row; interlayer; lift; ply; tier; wall |
Broader | sheet, flat solid |
Meaning | 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. |
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Part of | press, printing press |
Broader | surface |
Meaning | A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track. |
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Examples | "the track bed had washed away" |
Narrower | railroad bed; roadbed |
Broader | foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
Meaning | Furnish with a bed. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" |
Narrower | bunk |
Broader | supply, provide, render, furnish |
Nouns | bed |
Meaning | Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | plant, set |
Meaning | Put to bed. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "The children were bedded at ten o'clock" |
Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay |
Nouns | bed |
Meaning | Have sexual intercourse with. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | 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, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk |
Entailed by | seduce, score, make; consummate |
Narrower | take, have; fornicate |
Broader | copulate, mate, pair, couple |
Similar to | neck, make out |
Nouns | bed |
Meaning | Go to bed in order to sleep. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | go to bed, turn in, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire |
Narrower | bed down, bunk down |
Contrary | get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise |