Cot vs. Bed

Cotnoun

(US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed.

Cotnoun

A crib (child's bed).

Cotnoun

A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Cotnoun

(archaic) A cottage or small homestead.

Cotnoun

A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons; a cote.

Cotnoun

A small, crudely-formed boat.

Cotnoun

A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

Cotnoun

A small house; a cottage or hut.

Cotnoun

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

Cotnoun

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. See also finger cot.

Cotnoun

A small, rudely-formed boat.

Cotnoun

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

Cotnoun

a sheath worn to protect a finger

Cotnoun

baby bed with high sides

Cotnoun

a small bed that folds up for storage or transport

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.