| 单词 | bedding |
| 释义 | bedding (once / 1982 pages) n Use the word bedding when you're talking about sheets, pillowcases, blankets, or any other coverings for a bed. If you switch from a twin to a queen-sized bed, you'll need new bedding. When a college student moves into a dorm room she brings her own bedding, and when your grandmother gets her guest room ready for a visitor, she might wash all the bedding. Bedding also means the straw, hay, or other materials that a farm animal sleeps on — or the shredded paper you use to line your gerbil's cage. It comes from the Old English word beddinge, "bed covering," from bedd, "bed" or "resting place." WORD FAMILYbedding: beddings+/bed: bedded, bedding, bedless, beds USAGE EXAMPLESAnd Trump has called it “feather bedding” for select politicians and companies. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) He was trapped in the room for 32 hours without food, water, bedding or a toilet. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) At apparel, bedding and home decor retailer Garnet Hill, shoppers get an email asking for a review about three weeks after a purchase. Wall Street Journal(Nov 29, 2016) 1n coverings that are used on a bed Syn|Hypo|Hyper bed clothing, bedclothes bedroll bedding rolled up for carrying bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane, spreaddecorative cover for a bed blanket, coverbedding that keeps a person warm in bed mattress coverbedclothes that provide a cover for a mattress comfort, comforter, puff, quiltbedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together throwbedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something afghana blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl coverleta decorative bedspread (usually quilted) continental quilt, duvet, eiderdowna soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider electric blanketa blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat Mackinaw blanket, mackinawa thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States mantaa blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl patchwork, patchwork quilta quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together quilted bedspreada bedspread constructed like a thin quilt security blanketa blanket (or toy) that a child carries around in order to reduce anxiety cloth covering a covering made of cloth 2n material used to provide a bed for animals Syn|Hyper bedding material, litter material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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