bed

Noun

• a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
  • the track bed had washed away
    

• 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.

• single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
  • slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
    

• a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
  • he worked in the coal beds
    

• (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
  • they found a bed of sandstone
    

• a depression forming the ground under a body of water
  • he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
    

• a plot of ground in which plants are growing
  • the gardener planted a bed of roses
    

• 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
    

Verb

• prepare for sleep
  • I usually turn in at midnight
    
  • He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
    

• have sexual intercourse with
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    
  • Adam knew Eve
    
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?
    

• put to bed
  • The children were bedded at ten o'clock
    

• place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

• furnish with a bed
  • The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  layer , seam , bottom , 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