<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well</li><li>the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed</li><li>the bedstead alone</li><li>the act of or time for sleeping: Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed</li><li>the use of a bed for the night; lodging: I reserved a bed at the old inn</li><li>the marital relationship</li><li>any resting place: making his bed under a tree</li><li>something resembling a bed in form or position</li><li>a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown</li><li>an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown</li><li>the plants in such areas</li><li>the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water</li><li>a piece or part forming a foundation or base</li><li>a layer of rock; a stratum</li><li>Synonyms: deposit, lode, seam, stratification</li><li>a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like: a gravel bed for the roadway</li><li>Building Trades: the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position</li><li>the upper side of a stone laid in position</li><li>the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid</li><li>the natural stratification of a stone: a stone laid on bed</li><li>Furniture: skirt (def 6b)</li><li>the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid</li><li>Transportation: the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer</li><li>Chemistry: a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant</li><li>Sports: the canvas surface of a trampoline</li><li>the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley</li><li>the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened</li><li>Zoology: flesh enveloping the base of a claw, especially the germinative layer beneath the claw</li><li>Shipbuilding: a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape</li><li>bed and board</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) bedded, bedding: to provide with a bed</li><li>to put to bed</li><li>Horticulture: to plant in or as in a bed</li><li>to lay flat</li><li>to place in a bed or layer: to bed oysters</li><li>to embed, as in a substance: bedding the flagstones in concrete</li><li>to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse</li><li>(used without object) bedded, bedding: to have sleeping accommodations: He says we can bed there for the night</li><li>Geology: to form a compact layer or stratum</li><li>(of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part</li><li>Archaic: to go to bed</li><li>verb phrase: to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.)</li><li>to retire to bed: They put out the fire and decided to bed down for the night</li></ul>