bedding

«bedding» in Mova's school dictionary: The sheets, blankets, duvets, pillows and pillowcases 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 (bedding — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The sheets, blankets, duvets, pillows and pillowcases on a bed. tree →

2) Material such as straw, hay or wood shavings used for animals to sleep on. tree →

3) Bedding plants are small flowers planted in a garden bed for one season. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and hygiene, bedding should be washed regularly (often once a week) because sweat, skin flakes and dust mites collect in it; changing your bedding helps if you have allergies. In pet care, rabbits, guinea pigs and hamsters need clean, dry bedding, changed often. In gardening, bedding plants brighten flower beds. Phrases: "change the bedding", "wash the bedding", "clean bedding", "straw bedding", "bedding plants".

examples

• Help me change the bedding on your bed. tree →
• We wash our bedding every Saturday. tree →
• The hamster needs fresh bedding. tree →
• The horse had straw bedding in its stable. tree →
• My new bedding has dinosaurs on it. tree →
• Dust mites live in old bedding. tree →
• Granny planted bedding plants along the path. tree →
• Pack sleeping bags or bedding for the sleepover. tree →
• It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding. tree →

note

Uncountable: "the bedding", "some bedding", not "a bedding" or "beddings". It takes a singular verb: "The bedding is clean." Do not confuse "bedding" with "bedroom" or "bedtime".

In the corpora

• Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in.
• Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness.
• Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.
• On freezing nights small animals in hutches need a sheltered place and extra bedding.
• Damaged cables, hot plugs and chargers smothered under bedding are warning signs of a fault that can start a fire.

Trees and pragmatics

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