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As a conjunction bade is

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As a noun bade is

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bed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
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  • # A prepared spot to spend the night in.
  • # (lb) One's place of sleep or rest.
  • # Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
  • # The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
  • # (lb) Time spent in a bed.
  • #*
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  • # (lb) Marriage.
  • #* (1609-1674)
  • George, the eldest son of his second bed .
  • # Sexual activity.
  • A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
  • # The bottom of a lake or other body of water.
  • # An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
  • # A garden plot.
  • #*
  • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • # A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
  • # The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
  • # The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
  • # A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
  • # The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
  • # A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
  • # (lb) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
  • (lb) A layer or surface.
  • # A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
  • # (lb) 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.
  • # (lb) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
  • # (lb) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
  • (Knight)
  • # (lb) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
  • Usage notes

    Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed , or (qualifier) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread. Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, (term) requires no article after certain prepositions: hence , and so on. The forms (term), etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep. See also

    Derived terms

    * air bed/airbed * alveolar bed * apple-pie bed * bed and breakfast * bed blocker * bedbound * bedbug * bedchamber * bed check * bedclothes * bed cover * bedder * bedding * bedfast * bedfellow * bed ground * bed hair * bed head * bed-hop * bed jacket * bed linen * bed load * bedload * bedmate * bed-mould * bed of justice * bed of pelts * bed of roses * bedpan * bedpost * bed push * bedridden * bedroom * bed sheet, bedsheet * bedside * bedspread * bedspring * bedstead * bed-sitter, bedsitter * bed tea * bed trick * breakfast in bed * bunk bed * camp bed * canopy bed * capillary bed * coal bed * creek bed * day bed * death bed/deathbed * divan bed * double bed * feather bed/featherbed * filter bed * flatbed * flower bed, flowerbed * four-poster bed * French bed * gatch bed * get up on the wrong side of the bed * go to bed * go to bed with * Hollywood bed * hospital bed * hot bed/hotbed * in bed * interbedded * key bed * make one's bed and lie in it * make the bed * marker bed * Murphy bed * nail bed/nailbed * orthopedic bed * out of bed * oyster bed * pencil-post bed * pig bed * pissy bed * plank bed * platform bed (see platform) * procrustean bed * put to bed * red under the bed * river bed * roller bed * sea bed * shit the bed * single bed * sleigh bed * sofa bed/sofa-bed * sunbed * take to one's bed * tanning bed * test bed * truckle bed * trundle bed * twin bed * wake up on the wrong side of the bed * water bed, waterbed * wet the bed * you make the bed you lie in

    Verb

    (bedd)
  • Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
  • # To go to a bed. (rfex)
  • # To place in a bed.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • # To put oneself to sleep. (rfex)
  • # To furnish with a bed or bedding.
  • # (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
  • # To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
  • #* Wordsworth:
  • Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded .
  • #* '>citation
  • # To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
  • # To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
  • # To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
  • # To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
  • #* Shakespeare:
  • bedded hair
  • # To settle, as machinery.
  • Derived terms

    * bed down * embed

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    bade

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bid)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=22 citation , passage=Pancho, the major-domo, came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.}}

    Usage notes

    The inflected form bade', like the form bidden, is archaic. It remains in marginal use, particularly regarding greetings as in “'''bade farewell”, but uninflected bid is significantly more common.Bid, bade, bidden”, ''Grammarist

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