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Noun bed has 8 senses

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"
--₁ is a kind of furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture
--₁ has parts: bedstead, bedframe; mattress
--₁ has particulars:

Derived forms: verb bed₁, verb bed₃, verb bed₄

bed - a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses"
--₂ is a kind of plot, plot of ground, patch
--₂ has particulars:
asparagus bed; flowerbed, flower bed, bed of flowers; hotbed; seedbed; turnip bed
bed, bottom - a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
--₃ is a kind of natural depression, depression
--₃ has particulars:
lake bed, lake bottom; ocean floor, ocean bottom, seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jones; riverbed, river bottom; streambed, creek bed
bed - (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone"
--₄ is a kind of stratum
--₄ has particulars: ore bed
seam, bed - a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds"
--₅ is a kind of stratum
--₅ has particulars: coal seam
layer, bed - single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
--₆ is a kind of sheet, flat solid
--₆ is a part of laminate
--₆ has particulars:
backing, mount; blanket; course, row; interlayer; lift; ply; tier; wall
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.
--₇ is a kind of surface
--₇ is a part of press, printing press
bed - a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away"
--₈ is a kind of foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
--₈ has particulars: railroad bed; roadbed

Verb bed has 5 senses

bed - furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"
--₁ is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish

Derived form: noun bed₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
bed - place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
--₂ is one way to plant, set
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
bed - put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
--₃ is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay

Derived form: noun bed₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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?"
--₄ is one way to copulate, mate, pair, couple

Derived form: noun bed₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire - go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s