a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep |
a rough bed (as at a campsite) | a plot of ground in which plants are growing |
beds built one above the other | a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track |
a long trough for feeding cattle | 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. |
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance |
a message that seems to convey no meaning | 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) |