bed

or B.Ed.

(bĕd)

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.

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.

1. To go to bed.
2. Geology To form layers or strata.