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Bed can be a noun or a verb.

bed used as a noun:

  1. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
    "My cat often sleeps on my bed."
  2. One's bed, or a bed as a general place or concept.
    "Go to bed!"
  3. A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
    "He made a bed to sleep in for the night from hay and a blanket."
  4. A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
    "We added a new rosebush to our rose bed."
  5. The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".
    "There's a lot of trash on the bed of the river."
  6. An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
    "Oysters are farmed from their beds."
  7. A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed.
    "The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce."
  8. A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
    "A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot."
  9. The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
    "The parcels were thrown onto the truck bed before transportation."
  10. A deposit of ore, coal etc.
  11. A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship's floor; a pallet.
  12. A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a Radio DJ talks.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

bed used as a verb:

  1. To go to a sleeping bed.
  2. To put oneself to sleep.
  3. To settle, as machinery.
  4. To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
  5. To set out plants in a garden bed.
  6. To have sexual intercourse with.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is bed?

As detailed above, 'bed' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: My cat often sleeps on my bed.
  2. Noun usage: I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
  3. Noun usage: Go to bed!
  4. Noun usage: He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
  5. Noun usage: I had breakfast in bed this morning.
  6. Noun usage: He made a bed to sleep in for the night from hay and a blanket.
  7. Noun usage: We added a new rosebush to our rose bed.
  8. Noun usage: There's a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
  9. Noun usage: Oysters are farmed from their beds.
  10. Noun usage: The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
  11. Noun usage: A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
  12. Noun usage: The parcels were thrown onto the truck bed before transportation.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bed are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bed, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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