Bed vs Nest - What's the difference?

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Bed is a related term of nest.

As a noun nest is

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bed

English

Noun

(en noun)

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

# 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.

# (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 .

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# 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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nest

English

Noun

(en noun)

A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.

A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

a nest of thieves

''That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity of a parent or guardian. A parental home.

''I am aspiring to leave the nest .

(cards) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.

''I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest .

(military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

* 1981 , Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's , Garland STPM Press, ISBN 9780824071035, page 49:

Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack.

* 1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), ISBN 978-3-540-57659-4, page 178:

Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest , we are only parallelizing a single loop.

A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

(geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "nest")

Derived terms

* don't shit in your own nest * feather one's nest / feather one's own nest * nest egg

Verb

(en verb)

(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

To settle into a home.

We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!

To successively neatly fit inside another.

I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.

To place in, or as if in, a nest.

To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.

To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

* 1895 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton

After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting .

Anagrams

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