Bedside

Definition: Bedside

Bedside

Noun

1. Space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person); "the doctor stood at her bedside".

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

Date "bedside" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Crosswords: Bedside

I have two books at my bedside, Lieutenant: the Marine Corps Code of Conduct and the King James Bible (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

A bedside heater (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

Something that wakes them up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, reaching for the bedside lamp (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

Last night I left a burning cigarette by my bedside and the whole place was burny down (The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn; writing credit: Harry Booth)

I'll catch you. And if I miss for any reason, I'll sit by your bedside and nurse you back to health (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore)

Her diary it sits on the bedside table ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew)

Bedside Manner (1945)

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

References

• The World Market for Electric Table, Desk, Bedside, or Floor-Standing Lamps: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Bedside Manners (Maison Ikkoku, Volume 6) (reference)

• Bedside Prayers: Prayers & Poems for When You Rise and Go to Sleep (reference)

• The Bedside Guide to Dreams (reference)

• The Bedside Kama Sutra: 23 Positions for Pleasure and Passion (reference)

• The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bedside Toxicology (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• 3-in-1 Bedside Sleeper - French Bear (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown is a female health professional at the bedside of a bald female chemotherapy patient discussing information in a pamphlet or chart. (See artwork NCI-112D). Credit: NCI Clinical Center/Mathews Media Group.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Fractured femur taken by bedside x-ray unit. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Bedside occupational therapy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Hospitals - Bedside Scenes - Nurses] / I.R. Wiles. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A physician with students at the bedside of an old man] / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr..

Electrotherapy : Two nurses at a patient's bedside, administering therapy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

President Lyndon Johnson at the bedside of the sick public as Goldwater rushes in with "Equal time demand" bag. Credit: Library of Congress.

Clinton D. Duffy, warden of San Quentin, stands at a prisoner's bedside while Red Cross nurse Florence Aldrich prepares trhe young man for his donation. During the Red Cross mobile unit's visit, 150 men gave blood to the bank and more than twice that numb. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I had spent the better part of the night at the bedside of the worshipful Governor Winthrop, doing what my poor skill might to give him ease

M. Myriel could be called at all hours to the bedside of the sick and the dying

The cold sunlight was weaker and Brother Michael was standing at his bedside with a bowl of beeftea

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Health

Some people use a bed pan or a bedside chair urinal (YOOR-uh-nul) or commode. (references)

Great advances of modern biological science as applied to obesity can generate new information that can now be tested at the bedside. (references)

If the child is confined to bed and unable to go to the playroom, recreational therapists or child life workers may pay bedside visits. (references)

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

Expressions using "bedside": at his bedside ♦ bedside book ♦ bedside carpet ♦ bedside lamp ♦ bedside manner ♦ bedside rug ♦ bedside table ♦ have a good bedside ♦ have a good bedside manner ♦ sit at smb.'s bedside. Additional references.

Beginning with "bedside": bedside-manner, bedside-table.

Ending with "bedside": sick-bedside.

Albanian

anë krevati. (various references)

Arabic 

‏على طرف السرير, ‏جانب السرير. (various references)

Chinese 

床边, 床側 . (various references)

Czech

místo u lùžka. (various references)

Danish

bedside undervisning (bedside training), bedside metode (bedside method), sengeforligger (bedside rug), natbordslampe (bedside lamp), natbord (bedside table). (various references)

Dutch

bedlamp (bedside lamp), vloermatje (bedside rug), nachttafeltje (bedside table). (various references)

Farsi 

کناربستر, بالین (Clinic, Pillow). (various references)

Finnish

yöpöytä (bedside table), yölamppu (bedside lamp), ei poistunut hetkeksikään sairasvuoteen äärestä (never left the bedside for a moment). (various references)

French

chevet. (various references)

German

bettseite, Krankenbett (sick bed, sickbed). (various references)

Greek 

κομοδίνο (bedside table, commode). (various references)

Hebrew 

צד המטה. (various references)

Hungarian

ágy oldala. (various references)

Italian

lato del letto, capezzale (bolster). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

枕辺 , 枕許 , 枕頭 , 枕元 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まくらべ, まくらもと, ちんとう (absurd reply). (various references)

Korean 

침대 곁. (various references)

Manx

keeil-lhiabbagh, cheu lhiabbagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

edsidebay.(various references)

Portuguese

de cabeceira. (various references)

Romanian

margine a patului, cãpãtâi (bolster, head of the bed, home, rest, roof, support). (various references)

Russian 

постель (bed, roost). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pored (along, alongside, alongside of, beside, besides, by, close to, near, next to, notwithstanding, past, spite: in spite of). (various references)

Spanish

lado de la cama, de noche (at night, night, nightly), de cabecera (headboard), cabecera (bedhead, head, headboard, wing). (various references)

Swedish

nattduksbord (bedside table). (various references)

Thai

พื้นที่ข้างเตียง. (various references)

Turkish

başucu (vertex, zenith), yatak başı (head of the bed, headboard). (various references)

Ukrainian

постіль (bed). (various references)

Welsh

erchwyn (side). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bedside": bedsides. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bedside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bedsoiler, Beeside, Beishida, Bethsaida. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: beside, eddies.

-2 letters: bided, bides, deeds, sided.

-3 letters: beds, bees, bide, bids, bise, debs, deed, dees, dibs, died, dies, eide, ides, seed, side.

-4 letters: bed, bee, bid, bis, deb, dee, dib, did, die, dis, eds, ids, see, sei, sib.

-5 letters: be, bi, de, ed, es, id, is, si.

+1 letter: bedsides, birdseed, debrides.

+2 letters: bindweeds, birdseeds, debruised, described, disobeyed, reedbirds, subedited.

+3 letters: bestridden, disboweled, dissembled, embeddings, sideburned, sobersided.

+4 letters: biodegrades, bowdlerised, bridgeheads, deductibles, descendible, disbelieved, disbowelled, disburdened, disembarked, disembodied, disembodies, disembogued, dismembered, disobedient, overbidders, redescribed, underbodies.

+5 letters: absentminded, debridements, destabilized, disassembled, disemboweled, disobedience, indebtedness, misdescribed, underbidders.