bed vs groundwork

groundwork vs bed

bed and groundwork both are nouns.

bed is a verb but groundwork is not a verb.

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

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

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

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

bed (noun)	groundwork (noun)
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep	preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation
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	the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
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.
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
a depression forming the ground under a body of water
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

bed (verb)	groundwork (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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