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 →

2) A garden bed (flower bed) is a patch of ground for plants. tree →

3) The bed of a river or sea is the ground at its bottom. tree →

4) «Go to bed» means go to sleep at night. tree →

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 →
• Each flower bed has 12 tulips. tree →
• He goes to bed at 8:30. tree →
• The garden bed is 6 feet long. tree →
• Please make your bed. tree →
• We sleep in bunk beds. tree →
• Crabs walk along the sea bed. tree →
• The river bed was dry in summer. tree →
• She read a story in bed. tree →
• Children need about 10 hours of sleep, so go to bed on time. tree →
• Get out of bed this minute." tree →

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.
• Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in.
• Pigs are clean when they have space: they keep their toilet area well away from their beds.
• A chimpanzee bends branches into a fresh bed every single night, a bit like making your bed but starting with a tree.
• A cosy bed nearby and a calm voice help it settle over a few nights.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.