Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with a bed.
- Laid in a bed; embedded.
- Existing in beds, layers, or strata; stratified, or included between stratified masses of rock.
- Growing in or transplanted into beds, as plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Provided with a bed; ; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a bed or beds as specified
- adjective deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
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Examples
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The darn thing is glass bedded from the factory on the front action screw.
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The darn thing is glass bedded from the factory on the front action screw.
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According to the investigations of these expeditions, South Victoria Land consists of a vast, ancient complex of crystalline schists and granitic rocks, large extents of which are covered by a sandstone formation ( "Beacon Sandstone," Ferrar), on the whole horizontally bedded, which is at least 1,500 feet thick, and in which Shackleton found seams of coal and fossil wood (a coniferous tree).
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Victoria Land consists of a vast, ancient complex of crystalline schists and granitic rocks, large extents of which are covered by a sandstone formation (“Beacon Sandstone,” Ferrar), on the whole horizontally bedded, which is at least 1,500 feet thick, and in which Shackleton found seams of coal and fossil wood (a coniferous tree).
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Clive Worth, 60, claims to have met and "bedded" around 1,500 women online.
Clive Worth Claims He Was Booted Off Facebook For Bedding Women 2010
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The herd has already been "bedded" down carefully at convenient distance from the wagon.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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To fix the net, slip the tube up the stick past the last hole, and placing the little cranks, B and Q in their proper holes, the remainder of the arms properly "bedded" in the grooves, slide the tube D (Fig. 41) up to the point of the stick, as shown in Fig. 42, and the net is thus effectually locked and ready for use.
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Those cattle had been "bedded" for the night -- that is, two cow-boys had ridden around and around them driving them closer together so that they would be easy to watch, and much less likely to be restless.
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So, the cattle once more "bedded," and every spare hand left with them, as they are liable to run again, two of us start out to find if possible the missing men.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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The glass should be well "bedded" down to the sash bar, in putty containing a portion of white lead, and well secured with small iron nails or glaziers points.
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