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Bed Down

Definition: Bed Down

Bed Down

Verb

1. Go to bed; "We bedded down at midnight".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Bed Down

Synonym: bunk down (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bed Down

English words defined with "bed down": bunk downcollapseflopGibbed latheHolinglie, lie down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bed down": Bed-rock, buffing-machine operator, semiautomaticcoal spragger, consolidation trickling, CUPOLA TENDERdeep well, deformed crossbedding, depth of soil explorationFOLDER-TIER, furnace tenderHOME ATTENDANT, home health aideJUMPBASTING SEWING MACHINElaunder separation process, Levant and Couchant, LIP CUTTER AND SCORERmachine tracer, MARKER, MACHINE, MIRROR-FINISHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, movable sieve-type washboxNECKTIE-CENTRALIZING SEWING MACHINE, NEEDLE-FELT-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATORPARTS REMOVER, polishing-machine operator, semiautomatic, prospect drill pannerrespite, rubbing bed, RUG-SAMPLE BEVELERsample finisher, sausages, sealing coat, shothole bridge, stitch marker, STONECUTTER, MACHINE, story, stripped plain, SURFACE-PLATE FINISHER, surfacer operator, surfacing-machine operatorTrickling FilterUTILITY BAG ASSEMBLERVACUUM-APPLICATOR OPERATOR. (references)
Etymologies containing "bed down": Accouchement. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bed Down

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It was just like before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bed Down

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bed down fold

11

bed down feather goose

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bed Down

Language Translations for "bed down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

se coucher (go to bed), coucher (put to bed). (various references)

   

German

  

betten (bed, beds, lay out, make a bed for, pillow, spread, spread out), das bett machen. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lovaknak almot csinál (to bed down horses), lovakat istállóba beállít (to bed down horses), lesüpped (to bed, to bed down, to droop, to sink in). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edbay ownday

   

Spanish

  

acostarse (bunk, draw in, go to bed, lie, lie down, shake down, tumble, turn in), acostar (lay down, put, put to bed, put to sleep, tuck up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bädda ner sig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yatacak yer sağlamak (bed, sleep). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

укладати на ніч. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bed Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-n-o-w"

-1 letter: bonded, downed.

-2 letters: boded, boned, bowed, dowed, endow, owned.

-3 letters: bend, bode, bond, bone, done, down, ebon, eddo, enow, node, owed, wend.

-4 letters: bed, ben, bod, bow, deb, den, dew, doe, don, dow, end, eon, neb, new, nob, nod, now, obe, odd, ode, one, owe, own, web, wed, wen, woe, won.

-5 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, ow, we, wo.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-n-o-w"
 

+5 letters: downloadable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bed Down


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 64      44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0064      0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367170238818980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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