(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.
Zed
Definition:
(n.) The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.
Example Sentences:
(1) • This is an edited extract from Feminism & Men by Nikki van der Gaag , published by Zed Books.
(2) Zed Nelson's film about survivors of the Lampedusa boat tragedy will air on Channel 4's Dispatches early next month.
(3) Image: Zed Books Photograph: Zed Books Even in the 27 member countries of the EU, in April 2013 women accounted for only 16.6% of board members of large publicly listed companies.
(4) Paul French is the author of North Korea: State of Paranoia, published by Zed Books.
(5) Updated at 12.43am GMT 9.57pm GMT There's a couple of other issues I need to bookmark but swimming with the news cycle for now, the Liberal senator Zed Seselja is on Sky News on a panel.
(6) Liberal senator Zed Seselja said it could be politically challenging to sell a corporate tax cut but the government’s modelling shows it would lead to greater productivity and jobs.
(7) Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur is available now from Zed Books, priced £8.99.
(8) I absolutely condemn racist language.” The government’s overhaul has prompted public concern from some of its own backbenchers, notably Ken Wyatt and Zed Seselja; and some deeply personal interventions from Labor MPs outlining their own visceral experiences with racism.
(9) Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian If the bookshelves were not an example of excess, what would he consider an excessive claim?
(10) Photograph: Zed Nelson To reach the North African coast, Fanus had used a people-smuggling route fraught with danger.
(11) Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian "Yes, exactly," Smith says, "lost in the crowd."
(12) To see what I then did with it, check out the fascinating world of The Soterion Mission and The Revenge of the Zeds , where you’re adult at 11 – and dead by 19!
(13) Government members, including Zed Seselja, have criticised the exemption as “too broad”, given the narrowing of offences set out in 18C.
(14) Photograph: Zed Nelson Two weeks later – after taking a train to Milan and a plane to Barcelona – Fanus finally arrived in Stockholm and was staying at Meron Estefanos's apartment.
(15) Photograph: Zed Nelson To achieve her aim, Fanus knew she must avoid being registered as an asylum seeker in Italy (under the EU's "Dublin" regulation , refugees must claim asylum in the first European country they enter).
(16) Photograph: Zed Nelson Within 30 minutes, a larger fishing boat had joined the rescue.
(17) Since Zollinger and Ellison described two cases of this disease in 1955 which would later recieve their names (ZED), more than 1,000 cases have been published in the world literature up to date.
(18) The task for my new series (so far The Soterion Mission and Revenge of the Zeds ) was simple: challenge the teenage stereotype and set the record straight.
(19) (5) Bobcat was big in 80s standup before signing up as squeaky-voiced maniac Zed in the Police Academy movies.
(20) Indefensible - Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms Trade, written by Paul Holden, is published by Zed Books (£12.99).