Bed vs. Bet — What's the Difference?

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.

Risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game

A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.

Used to express certainty

A bedstead.

An act of betting a sum of money

A mattress.

An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager

A place where one may sleep; lodging

An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake

Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution

One on which a stake is or can be placed

A time at which one goes to sleep

A plan or an option considered with regard to its probable consequence

A place for lovemaking.

(Informal) A view or opinion, especially about something that cannot be known at the present time

A marital relationship with its rights and intimacies.

To stake (an amount, for example) in a bet.

A small plot of cultivated or planted land

To make a bet with

An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers

To make a bet on (a contestant or an outcome).

The ground surface below a body of water such as a sea, lake, or stream.

To maintain confidently, as if making a bet

A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food

To make or place a bet.

A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.

A candidate (for elections and pageants).

(Printing) The heavy table of a printing press in which the type form is placed.

A degree of certainty.

The part of a truck, trailer, or freight car designed to carry loads.

Alternative form of beth

A broad mass of rock or sediment bounded by different material.

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.

To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

A heap of material

(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

To furnish with a bed or sleeping quarters

(knitting) between

To put or send to bed.

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

To have sexual relations with.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

To plant in a prepared plot of soil.

An early form of Better.

To lay flat or arrange in layers.

The money risked on a gamble

To embed.

The act of gambling;

To establish; base.

Maintain with or as if with a bet;

To go to bed.

Stake on the outcome of an issue;

(Geology) To form layers or strata.

Have faith or confidence in;

A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.

A prepared spot in which to spend the night.

(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.

Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.

The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.

(uncountable) Time spent in a bed.

(figurative) Marriage.

Sexual activity.

Abbreviation of bedroom

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.

An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.

A garden plot.

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.

(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.

A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.

(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.

(trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.

(heading) A layer or surface.

A deposit of ore, coal, etc.

(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.

(masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.

(masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

(masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.

Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.

(intransitive) To go to bed. I usually listen to music before I bed.

(transitive) To place in a bed.

To put oneself to sleep. en

(transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.

(ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

(transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.

(transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.

(transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.

(transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.

(transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

To settle, as machinery.

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.

Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

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.

The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

To place in a bed.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

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.

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.

To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

To go to bed; to cohabit.

A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep;

A plot of ground in which plants are growing;

A depression forming the ground under a body of water;

(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);

A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit;

Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;

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.

A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track;

Furnish with a bed;

Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

Put to bed;

Have sexual intercourse with;

Go to bed in order to sleep;