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Bed


Definition:

  • (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.

Dig


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
  • (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
  • (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
  • (v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
  • (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
  • (v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  • (v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  • (n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
  • (v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
  • (2) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
  • (3) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
  • (4) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
  • (5) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
  • (6) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
  • (7) "In high-value areas like London it can be worthwhile digging under the house to add a basement, but in other parts of the country it won't be worth it," says Helen Brunskill of Brunskill Design Architects.
  • (8) The conditions for the incorporation of digoxigenin-11-dUTP (dig-11-dUTP) during polymerization were optimized to generate strand specific DNA hybridization probes up to a length of 5000 nt.
  • (9) Dig-ASO testing correctly reclassified 10 individuals who had tested inconclusively on analysis for leukocyte beta-hexosaminidase A activity; 3 were identified as carriers and 7 as noncarriers.
  • (10) Before digging into the problems with this latest solution, one big acknowledgment must be made: this is about as big a step as the ECB could have taken.
  • (11) It tells you everything you need to know about a Russia digging in for another 12 years of Putin.
  • (12) Merkl says the plan is to “really dig into the economics of collection and recycling so that people will find it profitable to collect and to separate.
  • (13) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
  • (14) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
  • (15) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
  • (16) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
  • (17) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
  • (18) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
  • (19) We do not need parliamentary inquiries or royal commissions to dig into this."
  • (20) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.

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