Bedstead vs. Bed — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bedstead and Bed
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Bedstead
The frame supporting a bed.
Bed
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.
Bedstead
The framework that supports a bed.
Bed
A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.
Bedstead
A framework for supporting a bed.
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Bed
A bedstead.
Bedstead
The framework of a bed
Bed
A mattress.
Bed
A place where one may sleep; lodging
Found bed and board at an inn.
Bed
Accommodations for a single person at a hospital or institution
A maternity ward with 30 beds.
Bed
A time at which one goes to sleep
Drank milk before bed.
Bed
A place for lovemaking.
Bed
A marital relationship with its rights and intimacies.
Bed
A small plot of cultivated or planted land
A flower bed.
Bed
An underwater or intertidal area in which a particular organism is established in large numbers
A clam bed.
An oyster bed.
Bed
The ground surface below a body of water such as a sea, lake, or stream.
Bed
A layer of food surmounted by another kind of food
Tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.
Bed
A foundation of crushed rock or a similar substance for a road or railroad; a roadbed.
Bed
A layer of mortar upon which stones or bricks are laid.
Bed
(Printing) The heavy table of a printing press in which the type form is placed.
Bed
The part of a truck, trailer, or freight car designed to carry loads.
Bed
A broad mass of rock or sediment bounded by different material.
Bed
A deposit, as of ore, parallel to local stratification.
Bed
A heap of material
A bed of wood chips.
Bed
To furnish with a bed or sleeping quarters
We bedded our guests down in the study.
Bed
To put or send to bed.
Bed
To have sexual relations with.
Bed
To plant in a prepared plot of soil.
Bed
To lay flat or arrange in layers.
Bed
To embed.
Bed
To establish; base.
Bed
To go to bed.
Bed
(Geology) To form layers or strata.
Bed
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
My cat often sleeps on my bed.
I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
Bed
A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
Bed
(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
Go to bed!
I had breakfast in bed this morning.
Bed
Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
Bed
The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
I read until bed.
Bed
(uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
Bed
(figurative) Marriage.
Bed
Sexual activity.
Too much bed, not enough rest.
Bed
Abbreviation of bedroom
2 beds, 1 bath
Bed
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
Bed
The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
Sea bed
River bed
There's a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
Bed
An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
Oysters are farmed from their beds.
Bed
A garden plot.
We added a new bush to our rose bed.
Bed
A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
Bed
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
Bed
The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.
Bed
A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
Bed
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
Bed
(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
Bed
A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
Bed
(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
Bed
(trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
Bed
(heading) A layer or surface.
Bed
A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
Bed
(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.
Bed
(masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
The upper and lower beds
Bed
(masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
Bed
(masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Bed
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
Bed
(intransitive) To go to bed. I usually listen to music before I bed.
Bed
(transitive) To place in a bed.
Bed
To put oneself to sleep. en
Bed
(transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
Bed
(ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
Bed
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
Bed
(transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
Bed
(transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
Bed
(transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
Bed
(transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
Bed
(transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
Bed
To settle, as machinery.
Bed
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.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.
In bed he slept not for my urging it.
Bed
Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
George, the eldest son of his second bed.
Bed
A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
Bed
A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
Bed
The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.
Bed
A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
Bed
See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
Bed
The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
Bed
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.
Bed
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
Bed
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
Bed
To place in a bed.
Bed
To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.
Bed
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
Bed
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.
Bed
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.
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
Bed
To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
Bed
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
Bed
To go to bed; to cohabit.
If he be married, and bed with his wife.
Bed
A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep;
He sat on the edge of the bed
The room had only a bed and chair
Bed
A plot of ground in which plants are growing;
The gardener planted a bed of roses
Bed
A depression forming the ground under a body of water;
He searched for treasure on the ocean bed
Bed
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);
They found a bed of standstone
Bed
A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit;
He worked in the coal beds
Bed
Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
Bed
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.
Bed
A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track;
The track bed had washed away
Bed
Furnish with a bed;
The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals
Bed
Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
Bed
Put to bed;
The children were bedded at ten o'clock
Bed
Have sexual intercourse with;
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
Bed
Go to bed in order to sleep;
I usually turn in at midnight
He turns out at the crack of dawn
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