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Bedrest

Definition: Bedrest

Bedrest

Noun

1. Confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons).

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

"Bedrest" is a common misspelling or typo for: bed rest, beret.



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Crosswords: Bedrest

English words defined with "bedrest": phlebothrombosisvenous thrombosis. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bedrest

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

General analgesia will likely be prescribed for any pain the patient may have. And bedrest is often recommended during the initial days and weeks after onset of the disorder. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bedrest

"Bedrest" is generally used as an adjective (superlative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bedrest" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (superlative)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bedrest

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

Chinese 

  

最bedrest. (various references)

   

German

  

bettlägerigkeit (confinement to bed). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fea drommey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edrestbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bedrest

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-r-s-t"

-1 letter: berets, bested, bredes, breeds, desert, deters, rested.

-2 letters: beers, beets, beret, beset, brede, breed, brees, debts, deers, deets, deter, drees, drest, ester, redes, reeds, reest, reset, seder, sered, steed, steer, stere, terse, treed, trees.

-3 letters: beds, beer, bees, beet, best, bets, bred, bree, debs, debt, deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, erst, rebs, rede, reds, reed, rees, rest, rete, rets, seed, seer, sere, teds, teed, tees, tree.

-4 letters: bed, bee, bet, deb, dee, eds, ere, ers, reb, red, ree, res, ret, see, ser, set, ted, tee.

-5 letters: be, de, ed, er, es, et, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bestride, bestrode, bistered, breasted, debaters.

 

+2 letters: absterged, becrusted, bedirties, bestirred, bestrewed, bestrides, bestrowed, blistered, blustered, bolstered, budgeters, interbeds, lobstered, outbreeds, redbreast, streambed, subverted, waterbeds.

 

+3 letters: banistered, bartenders, bedwetters, bestridden, betrotheds, broadsheet, budgeteers, buttressed, debarments, debentures, redbreasts, streambeds, sweetbread.

 

+4 letters: bespattered, bitterweeds, breadbasket, breadthwise, breakfasted, broadsheets, butterweeds, deliberates, distributee, drumbeaters, featherbeds, interbreeds, prediabetes, resubmitted, sweetbreads, timberheads, tinderboxes, whitebeards.

 

+5 letters: abridgements, bactericides, beardtongues, breadbaskets, centerboards, debridements, decarbonates, decerebrates, defibrinates, demonstrable, destructible, detribalizes, deverbatives, disbursement, disreputable, distributees, filibustered, obdurateness, outbreedings, prediabetics, readjustable, redistribute, restabilized, skateboarder, stockbreeder, teeterboards, tenebrionids, turbidnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bedrest


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

42 65 64 72 65 73 74

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    -..    .-.    .    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01100101 01100100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#100 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0064 0072 0065 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

36717084718586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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