bed

When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.

A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.

A prepared spot in which to spend the night.

Go to bed!

I had breakfast in bed this morning.

(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.

He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.

(uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.

I read until bed.

(uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.

I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary.

1903, Thomas Stretch Dowse, Lectures on Massage and Electricity in the Treatment of Disease, page 276:

Some prisoners, indeed, are always up before the bell rings — such was my practice — they prefer to grope about in the dark to tossing about in the utter weariness of too much bed.

1907, Jabez Spencer Balfour, My Prison Life, page 181:

This condition is one of the dangers of “too much bed”. The nurse should inspect the legs of each patient daily

1972, James Verney Cable, Principles of Medicine: An Integrated Textbook for Nurses:

George, the eldest son of his second bed.

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

Too much bed, not enough rest.

(figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.

2 beds, 1 bath

My cat often sleeps on my bed.

I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them[…].

1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:

sea bed

river bed

There’s a lot of trash on the bed of the river.

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.

Oysters are farmed from their beds.

I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:

An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.

We added a new bush to our rose bed.

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.

A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.

The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.

The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.

A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.

(printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.

A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.

(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.

These 5 judges mark the athlete's staying in the center of the bed, uniformity of bounce heights, and general style.

2000, Sports: The Complete Visual Reference:

(trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.

The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.

(heading) A horizontal layer or surface.

A horizontal layer or surface.
A deposit of ore, coal, etc.

(geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.

the upper and lower beds

(masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.

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(masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

(masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.

A horizontal layer or surface.
A course of stone or brick in a wall.

→ Chichewa: bedi

→ Chuukese: pet

→ Esperanto: bedo

→ Japanese: ベッド (beddo)

bed

flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed

bodem

the bottom of a lake or other body of water

bed

area where a large number of shellfish is found

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platform of a vehicle that supports the load

подло́жка

piece of music over which a radio DJ talks

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geology: the smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series

African-American Vernacular, some speakers

From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).

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Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”)


bed

I usually listen to music before I bed.

Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.

(intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.

For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration

1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

(transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.

And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]

1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland, page 121:

(transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

(intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.

1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.

But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.

2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):

Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

(transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.

(transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.

(transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.

(transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.

Your bedded hair like life in excrements

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

(transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

en-verb

bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)

beds (present singular third-person)
bedding (participle present)
bedded (participle past)
bedded (past)