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Quick definitions from WordNet (bed)

▸ noun:  a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep ("He sat on the edge of the bed")
▸ noun:  a plot of ground in which plants are growing ("The gardener planted a bed of roses")
▸ noun:  a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track ("The track bed had washed away")
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  a depression forming the ground under a body of water ("He searched for treasure on the ocean bed")
▸ noun:  (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) ("They found a bed of sandstone")
▸ noun:  single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance ("Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach")
▸ noun:  a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit ("He worked in the coal beds")
▸ verb:  furnish with a bed ("The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals")
▸ verb:  put to bed ("The children were bedded at ten o'clock")
▸ verb:  place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
▸ verb:  have sexual intercourse with
▸ verb:  go to bed in order to sleep

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