bed
1. a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep (Freq. 51)
- he sat on the edge of the bed
- the room had only a bed and chair
• Hypernyms:
bedroom furniture
• Hyponyms:
berth, bunk, built in bed, built-in bed, bunk bed,
cot, camp bed, couch, deathbed, double bed, four-poster,
hammock, sack, marriage bed, Murphy bed, plank-bed, platform bed,
sickbed, single bed, sleigh bed, trundle bed, trundle, truckle bed,
truckle, twin bed, water bed
• Part Holonyms:
bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, chamber, bedchamber
• Part Meronyms:
bedstead, bedframe, mattress
2. a plot of ground in which plants are growing (Freq. 3)
- the gardener planted a bed of roses
• Hypernyms:
plot, plot of land, plot of ground, patch
• Hyponyms:
asparagus bed, flowerbed, flower bed, bed of flowers, hotbed,
seedbed, turnip bed
3. a depression forming the ground under a body of water (Freq. 2)
- he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
• Syn:
bottom
• Hypernyms:
natural depression, depression
• Hyponyms:
lake bed, lake bottom, ocean floor, sea floor, ocean bottom,
seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jones, riverbed, river bottom,
streambed, creek bed
4. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- they found a bed of sandstone
• Topics:
geology
• Hypernyms:
stratum
• Hyponyms:
ore bed
5. a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- he worked in the coal beds
• Syn:
seam
• Hypernyms:
stratum
• Hyponyms:
coal seam
6. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
• Syn:
layer
• Derivationally related forms:
layer (for: layer)
• Hypernyms:
artifact, artefact
• Hyponyms:
backing, mount, blanket, course, row,
row, interlayer, lift, overlay, ply,
tier, wall
• Part Holonyms:
laminate
7. 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.
• Hypernyms:
surface
• Part Holonyms:
press, printing press
8. a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- the track bed had washed away
• Hypernyms:
foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork,
substructure, understructure
• Hyponyms:
railroad bed, roadbed
1. furnish with a bed
- The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals
• Hypernyms:
supply, provide, render, furnish
• Hyponyms:
bunk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
• Hypernyms:
plant, set
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. put to bed
- The children were bedded at ten o'clock
• Hypernyms:
put, set, place, pose, position, lay
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
4. have sexual intercourse with
- This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
- Adam knew Eve
- Were you ever intimate with this man?
• Syn:
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,
jazz, hump, lie with, have a go at it, bang,
get it on, bonk
• Derivationally related forms:
fucker (for: fuck), fucking (for: fuck), fuck (for: fuck), screw (for: screw), screwing (for: screw), love (for: love), lover (for: love)
• Usage Domain:
archaism (for: screw)
• Hypernyms:
copulate, mate, pair, couple
• Hyponyms:
take, have, fornicate
• Verb Group:
neck, make out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: lie with)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: hump)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: fuck)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: screw)
5. prepare for sleep
- I usually turn in at midnight
- He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
• Syn:
go to bed, turn in, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay,
hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire
• Ant:
turn out (for: turn in), get up (for: go to bed)
• Hyponyms:
bed down, bunk down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
|
|
