bed
(bed )
Word forms: beds , bedding, bedded
1. countable noun A1
A bed is a piece of furniture that you lie on when you sleep.
She went into her bedroom and lay down on the bed.
We finally went to bed at about 4am.
By the time we got back from dinner, Nona was already in bed.
When she had gone, Sam and Robina put the children to bed.
Synonyms: bedstead, couch, berth, cot
2. countable noun
If a place such as a hospital or a hotel has a particular number of beds, it is able to hold that number of patients or guests.
3. countable noun [usually noun NOUN]
A bed in a garden or park is an area of ground that has been specially prepared so that plants can be grown in it.
The geraniums in the flower bed looked bedraggled from the heavy rain.
...beds of strawberries and rhubarb.
Synonyms: plot, area, row, strip
4. countable noun
A bed of shellfish or plants is an area in the sea or in a lake where a particular type of shellfish or plant is found in large quantities.
Fishermen fear valuable oyster and mussel beds could be decimated.
The whole lake was rimmed with thick beds of reeds.
5. countable noun [usually singular]
The sea bed or a river bed is the ground at the bottom of the sea or of a river.
For three weeks a big operation went on to recover the wreckage from the sea bed.
...the bare bed of a dry stream.
Synonyms: bottom, ground, floor
6. countable noun
A bed of rock is a layer of rock that is found within a larger area of rock.
Between the white limestone and the greyish pink limestone is a thin bed of clay.
...a sandstone bed.
Synonyms: base, footing, basis, bottom
7. countable noun [usually singular]
If a recipe or a menu says that something is served on a bed of a food such as rice or vegetables, it means it is served on a layer of that food.
Heat the curry thoroughly and serve it on a bed of rice. [+ of]
Synonyms: layer, mass, pile, heap
8. See also -bedded, bedding
9. get sb into bed phrase [VERB inflects]
To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
10. go to bed phrase
To go to bed with someone means to have sex with them.
Synonyms: retire, turn in [informal], go to sleep, hit the sack [slang]
11. in bed phrase
If you say that someone is good in bed, you mean that they are a skilful lover.
12. in bed phrase [verb-link PHRASE, PHRASE after verb]
If you say that someone is in bed with someone else, you mean that they are having sex in bed.
13. made one's bed...lie in it phrase
If you say that someone has made their bed and must lie in it, you mean that since they have chosen to do a particular thing, they must now accept the unpleasant results of their action.
14. make the bed/make sb's bed/make a bed phrase B1+
When you make the bed, you neatly arrange the sheets and covers of a bed so that it is ready to sleep in.
15. got out of bed on the wrong side phrase [VERB inflects]
If you say that someone got out of bed on the wrong side, you mean that they have been bad-tempered ever since they woke up that morning.
16. bed of roses phrase
If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
We all knew that life was unlikely to be a bed of roses back in England.
Phrasal verbs:
bed down
phrasal verb
If you bed down somewhere, you sleep there for the night, instead of in a bed.
On nights when they could find no inn to take them in, they bedded down in the fields. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb]
BEd
(biː ed )
Word forms: BEds regional note: in AM, use B.Ed.
countable noun
A BEd is a degree which usually takes four years to complete and which qualifies someone to teach in a school. BEd is an abbreviation for 'Bachelor of Education'. Compare PGCE.
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Idioms:
someone has made their bed and will have to lie on it
said to mean that someone has to accept the unpleasant results of a decision which they made at an earlier time
Now he's lost me and the kids. But he's made his bed and he will have to lie in it.
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someone got out of bed the wrong side or someone got out of bed on the wrong side
said to mean that someone is in a very bad mood without there seeming to be any obvious reason for it
Sorry I was so unpleasant when I arrived this morning. I must have got out of bed the wrong side.
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put something to bed
to achieve a plan or task or complete it successfully
Before putting the agreement to bed, we still had to satisfy them.
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not a bed of roses
not all pleasant, having some difficult or unpleasant aspects
Life as a graduate is not a bed of roses.
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get into bed with someone
to make an agreement to work with another person or group. This expression is usually used showing disapproval.
The leisure group has not been the only hotelier to contemplate getting into bed with a supermarket chain.
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Collocations:
antique bed available bed bed frame bed sheet cage bed canopy bed comfortable bed comfy bed creek bed dog bed dry bed empty bed flower bed fossil bed gravel bed hotel bed iron bed kelp beds makeshift bed marital bed narrow bed plant bed proper bed raised bed reed bed share a bed shelter bed soft bed stream bed unmade bed warm bed wooden bed
Then they slept in antique beds.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The rooms are sumptuous, with antique four-poster beds and silk bed covers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There's an antique French bed, a bath big enough for two and a contemporary kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Thousands needed treatment but only a few hundred beds were available .
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
That, in turn, reduces the beds available to emergency patients who are admitted to hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Wales, said:'It is not uncommon for the department not to have any beds available .
The Sun (2014)
A further 400 beds are already available for women and children in a centre adjoining the camp.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Vacuum the mattress, bed frame and areas around the bed daily; hot-wash and tumble-dry bedding.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Clothes and bedding were scattered across the floor and the bed frame was cracked.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We'd lie awake at night, listening to the sound of the creaking bed frame straining underneath us.
The Sun (2016)
It was a bed sheet, hanging from a line.
Times, Sunday Times
I started to make a frame and used the bed sheet for a canvas, painted it and fell asleep.
Times, Sunday Times
The slab of the bed sheet, marbled with creases.
The Times Literary Supplement
In the early scenes, especially, a turned-down bed sheet or a grimy shower curtain have never seemed so threatening, solely because of what they imply rather than what they reveal.
Times, Sunday Times
Wearing just a bed sheet around his waist, he explains breathing exercises and arm movements.
The Sun
I discovered cage beds being used at other homes across the country.
The Sun (2006)
At night he is transferred to a cage bed, where he remains cooped up until dawn.
The Sun (2006)
She subsequently learnt that the hospital routinely placed newly admitted patients into cage beds.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The lodges are canvas and wood, with a king-size canopy bed handcrafted by the owners from local materials.
Times, Sunday Times
Our room was simply beautiful, with cool tiles underfoot, a canopy bed and a balcony.
The Sun
A typical canopy bed usually features posts at each of the four corners extending four feet high or more above the mattress.
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Rooms have canopied beds and exposed stone walls.
Times, Sunday Times
Bedrooms have canopied beds, terracotta tiled floors and jaw-dropping views over the gorge.
Times, Sunday Times
But the bed was very comfortable .
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The cabin was spacious and the bed surprisingly comfortable .
The Sun (2015)
It was in a good hotel -- good in the sense that the bed was comfortable and the people kind.
The Catalans
The stylish, spacious bedrooms have big, comfy beds.
The Sun (2012)
He had a comfy bed waiting for him at his mum's house so why suffer in a tent?
The Sun (2015)
I really could have done with a comfy bed.
The Sun (2016)
Our hormone levels and feelings fluctuate as unpredictably as flashflood waters running through a dry creek bed.
Christianity Today
It then went off a cement culvert and came to rest about 45 metres from the roadway in a creek bed.
canada.com
Here, spiky palm trees seek moisture in the cracks of an ancient sandstone canyon, sheer walls soaring 300ft above the creek bed.
Times, Sunday Times
A nearby creek bed was also scoured.
canada.com
At the dam, the original creek bed was at, making the dam approximately tall.
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Their dog has its own room, with fitted dog bed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They are brilliant, tough, comfy dog beds that retain their shape.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Plastic bottles are being shredded into fluff used to stuff dog beds.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The crowds queued to gaze up at the gates from the dry bed — a chance that comes only once every 25 years.
The Sun
I then headed 10 miles east to find the canal's course and walk, via a public footpath, along its dry bed.
Times, Sunday Times
Other garden bridges may cross only a dry bed of stream washed pebbles, intended only to convey an impression of a stream.
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The flow of this stream varies from a full rush of water in winter to a trickle, even a dry bed, in summer.
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Officials had the dry beds dug up for the installation of the sewage network.
Times, Sunday Times
I came home to an empty bed.
The Sun (2009)
There was an empty bed against the opposite wall, beneath the window.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Sitting on her empty bed, all I could do was watch the clock ticking.
The Sun (2015)
There is no point placing a flower bed under flowers that are already dead.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Rain was cascading from the gutter on to the flower bed, flattening the daffodils and narcissi.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3 (2002)
The route also passes through a fossil bed and thus requires a special park permit to be in the area.
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There are also wadi walks to explore fossil beds and guided snorkelling on the reef.
Times, Sunday Times
The bulk of the fossil bed consists of primitive plants (which had water-conducting cells and sporangia, but no true leaves), along with arthropods, lichens, algae and fungi.
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It did not take them long to discover fossil beds of a richness and variety beyond the wildest dreams of their colleagues in the old world.
Times, Sunday Times
Newspapers, and by extension their readers, are on their way to the fossil beds as sharper, fastermoving websites bite and claw at their lumbering flesh.
Times, Sunday Times
The river's gravel bed was gouged of trees by an angry flood two years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
Alternatively, you can add a natural regeneration zone to an existing pool by building a zone wall then adding a gravel bed and plants.
Times, Sunday Times
Beneficial bacteria colonize the gravel bed and provide biological filtration, using the substrate of the aquarium itself as a biological filter.
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This led to the removal of the gravel bed, ties, and tracks.
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The species constructs a nest or redd in the gravel bed of a stream.
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Now, I get into my hotel bed and sleep.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The first time we were photographed together was lying on a hotel bed for a publicity shot.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Last Thursday I dragged myself from a perfectly warm and comfortable hotel bed at 5.30am to drive around Leeds looking for a gym.
The Sun (2006)
One couple dismantled the iron bed they had brought from home, complete with mattress.
The Sun
Two steps lead up from the living area to the bedroom, which has an iron bed and antique furniture.
Times, Sunday Times
Their only furniture was a hard iron bed.
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The first mill was a steam sawmill, which closely followed by bed factory iron bed. 1908 was built the so-called threshing as manufactured threshing machines, fertilizer spreaders and harrows.
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Each prisoner received an iron bed.
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Prevent dredging and trawling and activities which damage kelp beds.
Times,Sunday Times
They were loafing in their kelp beds, all eyelashes, attitude and blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
Fish such as bass and thornback rays have returned to the cleaner sea along with kelp beds, colourful anemones, seals and even basking sharks in summer.
Times, Sunday Times
For now, it remains to be seen if divers can harvest urchins so efficiently and thoroughly that they can help restore kelp beds while still turning a profit.
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The findings are applicable to any coastal areas where there are extensive kelp beds.
Times, Sunday Times
They grabbed sleep when they could on a makeshift bed.
The Sun (2013)
He had a makeshift bed, cooked on a gas cylinder and used a bucket as a toilet.
The Sun (2015)
We've seen harrowing pictures of people left in corridors and on makeshift beds.
The Sun (2017)
Would you let a dog take your husband's place in the marital bed?
The Sun (2010)
One night he woke up to find the marital bed deserted.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He told me he's no longer sleeping in the marital bed and has moved into an annex at the side of their house.
The Sun (2014)
He lay back on the narrow bed, letting the dizziness subside.
A Plague of Angels (1993)
My room at the back of the house has a narrow bed, a wardrobe and a chair.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The electricity had been cut off and there was barely room for the narrow single bed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Make planting beds no wider than 1.2m, giving access of 60cm from each side.
Times, Sunday Times
There was virtually no greenery left when we got here, just two empty planting beds.
Times, Sunday Times
Your garden may already have a place where the planting beds or two hedges come close together?
Times, Sunday Times
We are fundraising for a sensory garden with raised plant beds for the residents to tend and aromatic flowers to stimulate senses.
The Sun
The central sandy gravel pathway that carves through the planting beds still feels too wide, but the scaling should sort itself out as the plants bulk up.
Times, Sunday Times
I need a proper bed in a decent hotel.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The workers say that it is cramped and without proper beds.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
At three he wanted to sleep in a proper bed, so he took his cot apart with a screwdriver.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This summer I'm going to ask him to put in raised beds for vegetables.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A raised bed is prepared by first adding a layer of shingle for drainage.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In limited space with poor soil, you could build a raised bed to fill with compost.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
These are enormous flocks of starlings that have gathered to roost in a reed bed or on the struts of a long seaside pier.
Times,Sunday Times
But in the evening they gather again in large roosts in a reed bed, or in a group of small trees in a town square.
Times, Sunday Times
It made a giant curve across the reed bed before vanishing, calling loudly as it did so.
Times, Sunday Times
It was standing at the front of a reed bed, just inside the reeds, on the far side of a partly frozen lake.
Times, Sunday Times
We watched as a heron alighted close to a group of redshank and lapwings tending downy young at the edge of a reed bed.
Times, Sunday Times
I had to share a bed with my sister.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
At night we shared a tiny metal bed not knowing whether we would survive the night.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A new alarm clock that targets individual sleepers could solve the perils of sharing a bed with an early riser.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
And they booked 5,707 shelter beds and helped 120 homeless persons move into permanent housing in 2007.
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Additionally, there are only 1,339 available shelter beds for the approximately 10,000 people sleeping outdoors.
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For those evacuees in need of shelter, the state government secured tens of thousands of shelter beds.
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But she lay and tossed in the soft bed, which seemed hot even though an air-conditioner thrummed in the window.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN (2001)
It was dressed from head to foot in red and gold, and lay on a soft bed of white satin.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Human remains had been found in a canyon stream bed in the park along with their son's belongings.
Times,Sunday Times
They stand on a stone in the stream bed, and take insects from the water, or by fluttering up and catching them in the air.
Times, Sunday Times
Silt clouds drifting downstream showed us how currents near the stream bed often differed to those at the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
More than 200 metres of stream bed was littered with sewage fungus.
Times, Sunday Times
Other ways of making inverted relief might be lava flowing down a stream bed or materials being cemented by minerals dissolved in water.
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He crawled into the unmade bed, then reached down to peel off his socks.
DEAD LINES (2004)
But an unmade bed cannot serve as a cultural bedrock.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She should not have been dragged from a warm bed at this hour of the night.
TREASON KEEP (2002)
I get three square meals a day, and a warm bed to sleep in.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Many don't know what a warm bed or a full tummy feels like.
The Sun (2011)
In the rooms, you'll want your full eight hours' sleep, nestled among goosedown pillows in a chunky wooden bed.
Times, Sunday Times
I go to bed at 10, in my own room, which has a small wooden bed.
Times, Sunday Times
Sawn-off wooden bed legs and materials from the prisoners’ huts, used to support the tunnel walls and roof, were still present, just as they had been left in 1945.
Smithsonian Mag
The room was completely devoid of comforts: low wooden bed, small stove, a faded picture from some foreign skiing magazine - where could that have come from?
Times, Sunday Times
There are four chairs made of cane and two centre tables, one simple wardrobe and one wooden bed with two side tables.
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Translations:
Chinese: 床
Japanese: ベッド