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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" place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o''clock" (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone" a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" 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. a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away" a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses" furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out 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?" |
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