Bed vs. Tray — 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.

A tray is a shallow platform designed for the carrying of items. It can be fashioned from numerous materials, including silver, brass, sheet iron, paperboard, wood, melamine, and molded pulp.

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

A flat, shallow container with a raised rim, typically used for carrying food and drink, or for holding small items or loose material

A bedstead.

A shallow flat receptacle with a raised edge or rim, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles.

A mattress.

A shallow flat receptacle with its contents

A place where one may sleep; lodging

A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.

Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution

(by extension) The items on a full tray.

A time at which one goes to sleep

A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.

A place for lovemaking.

A notification area used for icons and alerts.

A marital relationship with its rights and intimacies.

A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.

A small plot of cultivated or planted land

(Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.

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

(obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger

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

A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food

(transitive) to place (items) on a tray

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

(intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

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

To grieve; to annoy

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

To betray

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

To betray; to deceive.

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

A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

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

A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

A heap of material

A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.

To furnish with a bed or sleeping quarters

An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food

To put or send to bed.

To have sexual relations with.

To plant in a prepared plot of soil.

To lay flat or arrange in layers.

To embed.

To establish; base.

To go to bed.

(Geology) To form layers or strata.

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;