a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers |
a plot of ground in which plants are growing | a rough bed (as at a campsite) |
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | beds built one above the other |
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 long trough for feeding cattle |
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) |
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | a message that seems to convey no meaning |
a depression forming the ground under a body of water | |
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | |