Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bed

8 senses of bed

Sense 1
bed -- (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")
       => bedroom furniture -- (furniture intended for use in a bedroom)

Sense 2
bed -- (a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses")
       => plot, plot of land, plot of ground, patch -- (a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch")

Sense 3
bed, bottom -- (a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed")
       => natural depression, depression -- (a sunken or depressed geological formation)

Sense 4
bed -- ((geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of sandstone")
       => stratum -- (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Sense 5
seam, bed -- (a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds")
       => stratum -- (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Sense 6
layer, bed -- (single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach")
       => artifact, artefact -- (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Sense 7
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.)
       => surface -- (the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface")

Sense 8
bed -- (a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away")
       => foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure -- (lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bed

5 senses of bed

Sense 1
bed -- (furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals")
       => supply, provide, render, furnish -- (give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")

Sense 2
bed -- (place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil)
       => plant, set -- (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden")

Sense 3
bed -- (put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock")
       => put, set, place, pose, position, lay -- (put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point")

Sense 4
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, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk -- (have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?")
       => copulate, mate, pair, couple -- (engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring")

Sense 5
go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire -- (prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn")