(n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
(n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
(n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
(n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
(n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
(n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
(n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
(n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
(n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
(n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
(n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
(n.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
(n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
(n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
(v. t.) To place in a bed.
(v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
(v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
(v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
(v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
(v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
(v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(3) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(4) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(5) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
(6) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(7) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
(8) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
(9) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(10) Using nursing home and hospital medical records, we performed a case-control study to identify risk factors for death from LRI among residents of a 110-bed, midwestern community nursing home.
(11) These results indicate, that there is no autoregulation in the hyperemizied capillary bed.
(12) A 30% maltodextrin solution has been continuously hydrolyzed at 50 degrees C and pH 4.5 in a recycled, fluidized bed reactor (FBR) containing GA immobilized on these magnetic microparticles.
(13) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(14) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
(15) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(16) Principles and technique for selecting material from the human heart ventricular walls to study stereometrically their intramural arterial bed are described.
(17) We present interim survival data for a group of 83 adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma treated by implanting stimulated autologous lymphocytes into the tumour bed following surgical debulking.
(18) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(19) Biomicroscopic studies performed in anesthetized white rats revealed the increase in the cortex mass and the formation of microcirculatory bed as the main factors in microcirculation development.
(20) In 9 women with polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) and in 11 control subjects at the follicular phase of the normal cycle, blood samples were collected at 15-min intervals during a 2 h period of bed rest for the assay of beta-endorphin, beta-lipotropin, corticotropin, cortisol and prolactin.
Crag
Definition:
(n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
(n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
(n.) The neck or throat
(n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
Example Sentences:
(1) OS Map: Explorer 171 Chiltern Hills West and Explorer 172 Chiltern Hills East Arthur's Seat Edinburgh Salisbury Crags and Edinburgh's skyline from Arthur's Seat.
(2) Continue straight on at two roundabouts from where the pavement makes its way alongside Salisbury Crags to reach an obvious grassy path.
(3) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(4) Edinburgh’s skyline is dominated by Castle Rock, Calton Hill nearby, the dramatic volcanic remnants of Arthur’s Seat and the cliffs of Salisbury Crags , but festival events rarely focus on the city’s geological history.
(5) Why it's special For the painter John Ruskin, Keswick was almost too beautiful to live in; while the view from Friar's Crag was one of the three loveliest in Europe.
(6) Overall, anastomotic leak rates and death rates were lower in the CRAG group, and the lowest incidence of anastomotic leak was reported in the patients receiving CEA.
(7) Comparison of the P1 enzyme with the inducible P2 alkylsulphatase of this organism, and with the Crag herbicide sulphatase of Pseudomonas putida, showed that, although there are certain similarities between any two of the three enzymes, very few properties are common to all three.
(8) An unusual case of sustained electrocerebral silence on electroencephalogram (EEG) in a three-year-old retarded comatosed child with preserved intracerebral perfusion documented by a series of cerebral radionuclide angiograms (CRAG) is presented.
(9) Superb paths also run around the rim of Salisbury Crags (where a little care should be taken) and once the ascent of Arthur's Seat is accomplished, the hard work is done for the day and it is a simple matter of following a pavement through Holyrood Park back to the start.
(10) Both Sharp Edge and adjoining Foule Crag could be taken in from a vantage point near Troutbeck, rated by mountaineer Doug Scott as his favourite view.
(11) As grim as a gargoyle, craggy as a crag, jaw set in steel – even the famous smirk was well hidden behind the scowl.
(12) The stony way climbs steeply through the crags, wanders across an airy summit not far below the clouds, and then dips down in leisured zigzags to the edge of the world.
(13) Huge crags of fossil-rich red rock jut forth towards the sea to form private coves and slips of sand.
(14) The path from Keswick to the Crag is wheelchair- and pushchair-friendly.
(15) The CRAG helped detect subdural fluid collections, cerebrovascular disease, and cerebral cysts, but it was of little value in detecting hydrocephalus.
(16) Lovely as it is, on a sunny summer's day Plockton can start to feel crowded and there's nothing like this hike to the summit of the crags which loom over the village to blow the cobwebs from your hair, taking in the view of the village and its stunning coastal setting.
(17) Operations were performed upon patients anesthetized with either combined regional (epidural) and general anesthesia (CRAG) or general anesthesia alone (GA).
(18) Friar's Crag will have a special significance for fans of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.
(19) Bear left from Queen's Drive and follow the path as it climbs gradually underneath Salisbury Crags until it joins a red gravel path.
(20) For maximum diagnostic yield, a CRAG should be performed with all pediatric brain-imaging studies.