Bead vs. Bed

Beadnoun

(archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.

Beadnoun

Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

Beadnoun

A small, round object.

Beadnoun

A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire.

Beadnoun

Various small, round solid objects.

Beadnoun

A small drop of water or other liquid.

Beadnoun

A bubble, in spirits.

Beadnoun

A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.

Beadnoun

(heading) A ridge, band, or molding.

Beadnoun

A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.

Beadnoun

(architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.

Beadnoun

Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

Beadnoun

A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.

Beadnoun

Front sight of a gun.

Beadverb

(intransitive) To form into a bead.

Beadverb

(transitive) To apply beads to.

Beadverb

(transitive) To form into a bead.

Beadverb

(transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).

Beadnoun

A prayer.

Beadnoun

A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to be at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

Beadnoun

Any small globular body

Beadverb

To ornament with beads or beading.

Beadverb

To form beadlike bubbles.

Beadnoun

a small ball with a hole through the middle

Beadnoun

a shape that is small and round;

Beadnoun

a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

Beadverb

form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

Beadverb

decorate by sewing beads onto;

Beadverb

string together like beads

Bead

A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 millimetre (0.039 in) to over 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in diameter.

Bednoun

A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.

Bednoun

A prepared spot to spend the night in.

Bednoun

(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.

Bednoun

Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.

Bednoun

The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.

Bednoun

(uncountable) Time spent in a bed.

Bednoun

(figurative) Marriage.

Bednoun

Sexual activity.

Bednoun

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

Bednoun

The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.

Bednoun

An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.

Bednoun

A garden plot.

Bednoun

A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.

Bednoun

The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

Bednoun

The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.

Bednoun

A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.

Bednoun

The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

Bednoun

(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.

Bednoun

A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.

Bednoun

(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.

Bednoun

(heading) A layer or surface.

Bednoun

A deposit of ore, coal, etc.

Bednoun

(geology) the smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.

Bednoun

(masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.

Bednoun

(masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

Bednoun

(masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.

Bedverb

Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.

Bedverb

To go to a bed. en

Bedverb

(transitive) To place in a bed.

Bedverb

To put oneself to sleep. en

Bedverb

(transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.

Bedverb

To have sexual intercourse with.

Bedverb

Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

Bedverb

(transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.

Bedverb

(transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.

Bedverb

(transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.

Bedverb

(transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.

Bedverb

(transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

Bedverb

To settle, as machinery.

Bednoun

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.

Bednoun

Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

Bednoun

A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

Bednoun

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

Bednoun

The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.

Bednoun

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

Bednoun

See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

Bednoun

The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

Bednoun

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.

Bednoun

The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

Bednoun

The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

Bedverb

To place in a bed.

Bedverb

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.

Bedverb

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

Bedverb

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.

Bedverb

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.

Bedverb

To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

Bedverb

To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

Bedverb

To go to bed; to cohabit.

Bednoun

a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep;

Bednoun

a plot of ground in which plants are growing;

Bednoun

a depression forming the ground under a body of water;

Bednoun

(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);

Bednoun

a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit;

Bednoun

single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;

Bednoun

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.

Bednoun

a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track;

Bedverb

furnish with a bed;

Bedverb

place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

Bedverb

put to bed;

Bedverb

have sexual intercourse with;

Bedverb

go to bed in order to sleep;

Bed

A bed is a piece of furniture which is used as a place to sleep and relax.Most modern beds consist of a soft, cushioned mattress on a bed frame, the mattress resting either on a solid base, often wood slats, or a sprung base. Many beds include a box spring inner-sprung base, which is a large mattress-sized box containing wood and springs that provide additional support and suspension for the mattress.