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say it: bed
bed is a noun and verb meaning "a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep". It carries 13 recorded senses.
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”
a depression forming the ground under a body of water
“he searched for treasure on the ocean bed”
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
“the track bed had washed away”
place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
prepare for sleep
“I usually turn in at midnight”
“He goes to bed at the crack of dawn”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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