bed vs foundation

foundation vs bed

bed and foundation both are nouns.

bed is a verb but foundation is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bed	Yes	No	Yes	No
foundation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, foundation is a hypernym of bed; that is, foundation is a word with a broader meaning than bed:

bed: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
foundation: lowest support of a structure

Other hypernyms of bed include base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure.

bed (noun)	foundation (noun)
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep	the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
a plot of ground in which plants are growing	lowest support of a structure
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track	a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
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.	the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance	education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit	an institution supported by an endowment
a depression forming the ground under a body of water	the basis on which something is grounded
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

bed (verb)	foundation (verb)
prepare for sleep
have sexual intercourse with
put to bed
place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
furnish with a bed

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