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# bed

«bed» in Mova's school dictionary: **furniture you sleep on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bed, beds); verb (bed down — to sleep somewhere)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bed is furniture you sleep on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#m1)

2) A garden bed (flower bed) is a patch of ground for plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#m2)

3) The bed of a river or sea is the ground at its bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#m3)

4) «Go to bed» means go to sleep at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

things counted in rooms, or flower beds with rows and area; also bedtime; in science, a riverbed or seabed; phrases «go to bed», «make the bed», «bedtime», «bunk bed», «flower bed»

### examples

- The hotel has 40 beds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x1)
- Each flower bed has 12 tulips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x2)
- He goes to bed at 8:30. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x3)
- The garden bed is 6 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x4)
- Please make your bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x5)
- We sleep in bunk beds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x6)
- Crabs walk along the sea bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x7)
- The river bed was dry in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x8)
- She read a story in bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x9)
- Children need about 10 hours of sleep, so go to bed on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x10)
- Get out of bed this minute." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/#x11)

### note

A thing counted or a shape for area. Trap: «go to bed at» gives a clock time; time asleep = wake-up time − bedtime.

### In the corpora

- [Screens in bed keep you awake, so many families keep screens downstairs at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/20/)
- [Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/9/)
- [Pigs are clean when they have space: they keep their toilet area well away from their beds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/5/)
- [A chimpanzee bends branches into a fresh bed every single night, a bit like making your bed but starting with a tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles/2/)
- [A cosy bed nearby and a calm voice help it settle over a few nights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.