Bed (disambiguation)
Bed (from Got. Badi , mhd. Bet (te) , ahd. Betti = also beet) refers to the Germanic root bed (dig, sting) a deposit dug into the ground or the ground on which one rests. The following meanings are derived from this:
- Bed , a piece of furniture for resting, sleeping, etc.
- Regionally a short name for the duvet (short for "duvet"), see bed linen
- Water bed, the channel-shaped bottom of water bodies formed by erosion or folding and bordered by banks
- Seedbed , the soil prepared for sowing
- Machine bed , the supporting substructure of a machine
- in the hunter's language the night camp of big game
- in traffic and construction the load-bearing or load-distributing substructure of structures, see track bed , bedding , mortar bed
- Music bed , background music on the radio
Bed is the family name of the following people:
- Kipyegon bed (* 1998), Kenyan athlete
- Leonard Kipkemoi Bett (* 2000), Kenyan athlete
- Nicholas Bett (1990–2018), Kenyan hurdler
- Raymond Kimutai Bett (* 1984), Kenyan marathon runner
See also:
Wiktionary: bed - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
