Bedded

bed  (bd)

n.

1.

a. A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.

b. A bedstead.

c. A mattress.

2.

a. A place where one may sleep; lodging: found bed and board at an inn.

b. Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution: a maternity ward with 30 beds.

3. A time at which one goes to sleep: drank milk before bed.

4. A place for lovemaking.

5. A marital relationship with its rights and intimacies.

6.

a. A small plot of cultivated or planted land: a flower bed.

b. An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers: a clam bed; an oyster bed.

7. The bottom of a body of water, such as a stream.

8. A supporting, underlying, or securing part, especially:

a. A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food: tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.

b. A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.

c. A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.

9. Printing The heavy table of a printing press in which the type form is placed.

10. The part of a truck, trailer, or freight car designed to carry loads.

11. Geology

a. A rock mass of large horizontal extent bounded, especially above, by physically different material.

b. A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.

12. A heap of material: a bed of wood chips.

v. bed·ded, bed·ding, beds

v.tr.

1. To furnish with a bed or sleeping quarters: We bedded our guests down in the study.

2. To put or send to bed.

3. To have sexual relations with.

4. To plant in a prepared plot of soil.

5. To lay flat or arrange in layers.

6.

a. To embed.

b. To establish; base.

v.intr.

1. To go to bed.

2. Geology To form layers or strata.

Idioms:

get into bed with

Slang To become closely involved with another person or group, as in an intrigue: "The Israelis were experienced at this kind of [covert] ... work, but it was essential that the administration not get into bed with them on this" Bob Woodward.

go to bed with

To have sexual relations with.

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[Middle English, from Old English.]

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bedded - deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock" stratified geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
	2.	bedded - having a bed or beds as specified combining form - a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'" bedless - without a bed; "the cell was bedless"