Word Finder - beds

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A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.

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My cat often sleeps on my bed. I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.

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A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

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The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.

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(heading) A layer or surface.

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Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.

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Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

This place is full of beds waiting for celebrity hook-ups.

Large beds of mica are found in the east.

Lisa was making the beds one morning and Connie was in the bathroom brushing her teeth.

After the dishes were done and the beds made, she usually wandered around the house or sat in the yard, soaking up sun.

There wasn't any bumping and grinding and those beds are noisy.

The ground beneath them moved suddenly, a low rumble that made the beds shake.

It is not true that throughout the whole width of this zone the beds are folded.

It was light, a curved grey sword made of the same material as the beds and spaceships.

The most widely spread of the sedimentary beds belong to the Miocene period.'

The opening was filled with ferns which completely covered the beds of limestone and in places hid the streams.

The beds remain in bearing for six or eight months, and then the spent manure is taken to the surface again for garden and field purposes.

The later beds of the island belong to the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary systems. At the western foot of the Ida massif calcareous beds with corals, brachiopods (Rhvnchonella inconstans, &c.) have been found, the fossils indicating the horizon of the Kimmeridge clay.

All these are involved in the earth movements to which the mountains of the island owe their formation, but the Miocene beds (with Clypeaster) and later deposits lie almost undisturbed upon the coasts and the low-lying ground.

With the J urassic beds is associated an extensive series of eruptive rocks (gabbro, peridotite, serpentine, diorite, granite, &c.); they are chiefly of Jurassic age, but the eruptions may have continued into the Lower Cretaceous.

The structure is further complicated by a great thrust-plane which has brought the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous beds upon the Upper Cretaceous and Eocene beds.

The oyster beds, for which Loch Ryan was once noted, are not cultivated, but the fisheries (white fish and herrings) are still of some consequence.

In the extreme north-east are found the oldest rocks in the state - lower Devonian (the New Scotland beds of New York) and, not so old, an extension of the Lower Carboniferous which underlies the Warrior coalfields of Alabama, and which consists of cherts, limestones, sandstones and shales, with a depth of 800 to 900 ft.

It is marked by grey clays and sands, lignitic fossiliferous clays, beds of lignite or brown coal, sometimes 8 ft.

The Jackson formation south-west of the Lisbon beds, is made up chiefly of grey calcareous clay marls, bluish lignitic clays, green-sand and grey siliceous sands.

Talc also is widely distributed in the state; the most extensive beds are in the south-western counties, Swain and Cherokee.

The Coral Limestone series lies indifferently upon the older beds.

The Red beds and Cave sandstones occur along the eastern flanks of the Drakensberg.

When the rocks are concealed by detrital material he looks for outcroppings on steep hillsides, on the crests of hills or ridges, in the beds of streams, in landslides, in the roots of overturned trees, and in wells, quarries, roadcuttings and other excavations.

Search should be made in the beds of streams and on the hillsides for " float mineral " or " shoad stones," fragments of rocks and minerals known to be associated with and characteristic of the deposits.

Fragments of coal, or soil stained black with coal, will be found near the outcrop tif coal beds.

In the case of very thick beds and mass deposits the main shaft or tunnel will preferably be located in the foot-wall.

In steeply inclined beds the working-place can be so arranged that the mineral will fall or slide from the place where it is broken down to the main haulage road.

While it is always desirable to provide large working-places, the size of the working-place is limited by the thickness and Size of strength of the overlying beds forming the roof Working- or hanging wall of the mine.

With weak and thin beds forming the roof the working-places are often not wider than 20 or 3 o ft.

In long-wall and in the work of mining pillars the roof will be supported on one side only, the overhanging beds acting as cantilevers.

The working-place in such case is considerably narrower than in rooms or stopes, and there is also greater difficulty in supporting the roof because the projecting beds tend to break close to the point of support where the strain is greatest.

In the systematic mining of larger deposits, the simplest plan consists in mining large areas by means of numerous working-places under the protection of pillars of mineral left for the purpose, and later mining these pillars systematically, allowing the overlying rock beds to fall and fill the abandoned workings.

In steep pitching beds sufficient excavated material is allowed to remain in the stope for the support of the machines and men, the excess being drawn out from time to time and loaded into cars.

Among the city's manufactories are breweries, iron and brass foundries, stove factories, knitting mills, cotton mills, clothing factories, slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, cigar and cigarette factories, and manufactories of adhesive pastes, court plaster, spring beds, ribbed underwear, aniline dyes, chemicals, gas meters, fire-brick, and glazed paper and cardboard.

Its upheaval above the great sea which submerged all the north-west of the Indian peninsula long after the Himalaya had massed itself as a formidable mountain chain, belongs to a comparatively recent geologic period, and the same thrust upwards of vast masses of cretaceous limestone has disturbed the overlying recent beds of shale and clays with very similar results to those which have left so marked an impress on the Baluch frontier.

Successive flexures or ridges are ranged in more or less parallel lines, and from between the bands of hard, unyielding rock of older formation the soft beds of recent shale have been washed out, to he carried through the enclosing ridges by rifts which break across their axes.

They build up natural aqueducts of limestone, and after flowing for a time on these elevated beds burst their walls and take a new course.

West of this line the rocks are chiefly Tertiary and Quaternary; east of it they are mostly Palaeozoic or gneissic. In the western mountain ranges the beds are thrown into a series of folds which form a gentle curve running from south to north with its convexity facing westward.

The Cretaceous beds have not yet been separated from the overlying Eocene, and the identification of the system rests on the discovery of a single Cenomanian ammonite.

The Eocene beds are marine and contain nummulites.

The Miocene beds are also marine and are characterized by an abundant molluscan fauna.

Flint chips, which appear to have been fashioned by hand, are said to have been found in the Miocene beds, but to prove the existence of man at so early a period would require stronger evidence than has yet been brought forward.

The petroleum of Burma occurs in the Miocene beds, one of the best-known fields being that of Yenangyaung.

Although similar teeth occur in the phosphorite beds of South Carolina, which may have been transported from elsewhere, no undoubted remains of Megatherium are known from North America.

The second element in the composition of the island consists of Mesozoic beds, which occur in a broken band along most of the south-western coast.

Peletan classes all these limestones as Triassic. Triassic beds of the Pacific coastal type occur in a band along the south-western coast.

They are covered by marine Jurassic beds and they in turn by Cretaceous coal-bearing, terrestrial deposits, resembling those of New Zealand.

The nitrate forms beds, varying in thickness from 6 in.

The seed is sown in nursery beds, and the plants set out in the field later.

Hot beds are made when necessary.