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单词 bed of roses
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bed1 /bed/

noun
  1. A couch or place to sleep on
  2. A mattress
  3. A bedstead
  4. A garden plot
  5. A layer of oysters, etc
  6. A place in which anything rests
  7. Conjugal union, sexual intercourse, the marriage-bed, matrimonial rights and duties
  8. A place available for occupancy in a hospital, nursing home, etc
  9. The channel of a river
  10. A sea or lake bottom
  11. A layer or stratum
  12. The underside of something
  13. An underlying surface
  14. A flat surface on which something can be laid
transitive verb (beddˈing; beddˈed)
  1. To put to bed
  2. To provide, or make, a bed for
  3. To have sexual intercourse with (informal)
  4. To plant in a bed
  5. To lay in layers or on a surface
  6. To embed
intransitive verb
  1. To go to bed
  2. To cohabit
ORIGIN: OE bed(d); Ger Bett, ON bethr; prob related to L fodere to dig (as orig a hole)

beddˈable adjective (informal)

Sexually attractive

beddˈer noun

  1. A plant suitable for a flower-bed
  2. A bedmaker in a Cambridge college (informal)

beddˈing noun

  1. Bedclothes, etc, with or without the mattress
  2. Litter for cattle
  3. Stratification (geology; false bedding see under false)

bedˈward or bedˈwards adverb

  1. In the direction of bed
  2. Towards bedtime

bedˈbath noun

The washing of a sick person in his or her bed, a blanket bath

bedˈ-blocking noun

A situation in which a hospital patient, though fit, cannot vacate a bed because there is no aftercare available

bedˈ-bottle noun

A bottle for bedridden males to urinate in

bedˈbug noun

A brown flattened biting bug (Cimex lectularius)

bedˈchamber noun (archaic)

A bedroom

bedˈ-closet noun

A closet serving as a bedroom

bedˈclothes plural noun

Sheets, blankets, etc for a bed

bedˈcover noun

An upper covering for a bed

bedding plant noun

A plant sufficiently well-grown for planting in a bed

beddˈy-bye or -byes noun (used in speaking to children or facetious)

Bed, as a place to sleep

bedˈfast adjective (Scot and N Eng)

Confined to bed

bedˈfellow noun

  1. A sharer of a bed
  2. A colleague (figurative)
  3. Something or someone that associates with another (figurative)

bed'head noun

  1. The headboard of a bed
  2. (also bed hair) the dishevelled appearance of the hair after sleeping (informal)

bedˈ-hopping noun (informal)

Having a series of casual sexual affairs

bedˈ-jacket noun

A light jacket worn when sitting up in bed

bedˈ-key noun

A tool for tightening a bedstead

bed linen noun

Sheets and pillowcases

bedˈmaker noun

A person who makes the beds and cleans college rooms at Oxford, etc

bedˈpan noun

  1. A utensil into which a person confined to bed can urinate and defecate
  2. A warming pan

bedˈplate noun (mechanics)

The metal base to which the frame of a machine, engine, etc is attached

bedˈpost noun

A corner support of a bedstead

bedˈpresser noun (Shakespeare)

A heavy, lazy fellow

bedˈ-rest noun

  1. Confinement to bed, usu on medical orders
  2. A support for someone sitting up in bed

bedˈridden (also obsolete bedˈrid) adjective

  1. Confined to bed by age or sickness
  2. Worn-out

bedˈright or bedˈrite noun (Shakespeare)

The privilege or due of the marriage-bed

bedˈrock noun

  1. The solid rock underneath superficial formations
  2. Fundamental principles
  3. The lowest state

adjective

  1. Bottom, lowest
  2. Basic, fundamental

bedˈroll noun

A sleeping-bag or bedclothes rolled up so as to be easily carried by a camper, etc

bedˈroom noun

  1. A room with a bed
  2. A sleeping apartment
  3. Room in bed, sleeping space

adjective

(esp of a comedy or farce) involving or hinting at sexual activity between people in a bedroom, in night-clothes, etc

bedroom tax noun (informal)

In Britain, a financial penalty imposed on tenants if a property supplied by a local authority or housing association contains more rooms than is merited by the size of the household

bedˈ-settee noun

A sofa that converts into a bed

bedˈ-sheet noun

A cotton, nylon, etc sheet for a bed

bedˈside noun

The space beside a bed (also adjective)

bedside book noun

One esp suitable for reading in bed

bedside manner noun

That assumed by a doctor, etc at a sickbed

bedsittˈing-room noun

A combined bedroom and sitting room, eg in lodgings (shortened to bedˈsit or bedˈsitter)

bedˈsocks plural noun

Warm socks for wearing in bed

bedˈsore noun

An ulcer, esp over the bony prominences, arising from long confinement to bed (also called pressure sore)

bedˈspread noun

A coverlet put over a bed by day

bedˈ-staff noun

  1. A staff or lath formerly used for various purposes in connection with beds
  2. A handy weapon

bedˈstead noun

A frame for supporting a bed

bedˈstraw noun

Any plant of the genus Galium, esp (Our) Lady's bedstraw (G. verum), once used as stuffing for mattresses

bedˈ-swerver noun (Shakespeare)

A person false to his or her marriage vow

bedˈ-table noun

A table for use by a person in bed

bedˈtick noun (old)

The case into which stuffing is put to make a mattress

bedˈtime noun

The time for going to bed

adjective

To do with, or suitable for, bedtime

bedˈ-warmer noun

A warming pan

bedˈ-wetting noun

The accidental passing of urine in bed

bedˈ-work noun (Shakespeare)

Work easily performed, as if done in bed

bedˈ-worthy adjective (informal)

Sexually attractive

be brought to bed (of) (archaic)

To give birth (to)

bed and board

  1. Food and lodging
  2. Full connubial relations

bed and breakfast

Overnight accommodation with breakfast at a hotel, etc (bedˈ-and-breakˈfast adjective (stock exchange) of deals in which shares are sold one day and rebought the next (also transitive verb))

bed down

To (cause to) settle down, esp in a makeshift bed, for sleep

bed of down

A bed of roses

bed of honour

The grave of a soldier who has fallen in battle

bed of justice

  1. (Fr lit de justice) the king's throne in the Parlement of Paris
  2. A sitting at which the king was present, chiefly for the registration of his own decrees

bed of nails

  1. The board studded with nails on which fakirs lie
  2. An extremely difficult and uncomfortable situation

bed of roses

Any easy or comfortable place

bed out

To plant out in a flower-bed, etc

get in bed with (commercial jargon)

To form an alliance with (another business)

get out of bed on the wrong side

To start the day in a bad mood

go or put to bed

(of newspapers, magazines, etc) to go to or send to press

go to bed with

To have sexual intercourse with

keep one's bed (archaic)

To remain in bed

lie in the bed one has made

To have to accept the consequences of one's own acts

Lords or Ladies of the Bedchamber

Officers in the royal household who wait upon a king or queen

make a bed

To tidy and put in order the bedclothes on a bed

take to one's bed

To go to bed because of illness, grief, age, etc

rose1 /rōz/

noun
  1. The flower of any species of the genus Rosa, national emblem of England
  2. A shrub bearing it, mostly prickly, with white, yellow, pink, orange, or red flowers, numerous stamens and carpels, and achenes enclosed in the receptacle
  3. Extended to various flowers or plants in some way resembling the true rose (see eg guelder rose, rock rose under rock1)
  4. A paragon
  5. A rosette, esp on a shoe
  6. A rose-cut stone
  7. A rose window
  8. A perforated nozzle
  9. A circular moulding from which eg a door-handle projects
  10. A circular fitting in a ceiling from which an electric light flex hangs
  11. The typical colour of the rose, pink or light crimson
  12. (in pl) (in white-skinned peoples) the pink glow of the cheeks in health
  13. Erysipelas
adjective
  1. Of, for or like the rose or roses
  2. Rose-coloured
transitive verb

To make like a rose, in colour or scent

ORIGIN: OE rōse, from L rosa, prob from Gr rhodeā a rosebush, rhodon rose

roseal /rōˈzi-əl/ adjective

Roselike

rōˈseate /-zi-it or -zi-āt/ adjective

  1. Rosy
  2. Rose-scented
  3. Of roses
  4. Unduly favourable or sanguine

rosed adjective

  1. Flushed (Shakespeare)
  2. Having a rose or roses

roseˈless adjective

roseˈlike adjective

rōˈsery noun

A rose garden (see rosary)

rosier /rōˈzhər/ (Fr rosier) or (Spenser) rosiere /rō-zi-ārˈ, -ērˈ/ noun

A rose tree or bush

rōˈsily adverb

rōˈsiness noun

rōˈsy adjective (rōˈsier; rōˈsiest)

  1. Of or covered in roses
  2. Roselike
  3. Rose-red
  4. Blooming
  5. Blushing
  6. Bright
  7. Hopeful
  8. Promising
noun (old slang)

Wine

transitive verb and intransitive verb

To redden

rose apple noun

  1. An East Indian tree of the clove genus
  2. Its edible fruit

roseˈbay noun

  1. The oleander (also called rosebay laurel or rose-laurel)
  2. Any rhododendron (N American)

rosebay willowherb noun

A willowherb common where woods have been felled or land cleared by fire (also called fireweed)

rose beetle noun

  1. The rose chafer
  2. The rose bug

roseˈbowl noun

An ornamental bowl for cut flowers

roseˈbud noun

rose bug noun

An American beetle that eats roses

roseˈbush noun

rose campion noun

A garden species of campion (Lychnis coronaria)

rose chafer noun

A beetle (Cetonia aurata) that eats roses

roseˈ-cheeked adjective

rose colour noun

Pink

roseˈ-coloured adjective

  1. Pink
  2. Seeing or representing things in too favourable a light

rose comb noun

  1. A fowl's low red crest
  2. A fowl with such a crest

roseˈ-combed adjective

rose cross noun

  1. A cross within a circle
  2. A Rosicrucian

roseˈ-cut adjective

(of a gem) cut in nearly hemispherical form, with flat base and many small facets rising to a low point above

rose diamond noun

A rose-cut diamond

rose drop noun

  1. A rose-flavoured sweet
  2. A red eruption on the nose

rose elder noun

The guelder-rose

rose engine noun

A lathe attachment for carving swirling patterns

roseˈfinch noun

Any of various finches of the genus Carpodacus found in Europe and Asia, the males more or less covered with red or pink plumage, especially Carpodus erythrinus, the common rosefinch

roseˈfish noun

The bergylt

rose garden noun

rose geranium noun

A pelargonium (Pelargonium graveolens) with small pink flowers and fragrant leaves

roseˈhip noun

The fruit of the rose

roseˈ-hued adjective (archaic)

Rose-coloured

rose knot noun

A rosette of ribbon, etc

rose laurel noun

Oleander

rose leaf noun

  1. The leaf of a rose
  2. Usu a rose-petal

roseˈ-lipped adjective

Having red lips

rose madder noun

A pale pink colour, made from madder pigment

roseˈmaling noun

Painting or carving furniture in floral motifs

rose mallow noun

  1. Hollyhock
  2. Hibiscus

rose noble noun

An old English gold coin with the figure of a rose

rose of Jericho noun

A cruciferous plant (Anastatica hierochuntica) of N Africa and Syria, that curls in a ball in drought

rose of Sharon noun

  1. (in the Bible, Song of Solomon) prob a narcissus
  2. Now applied to a species of hibiscus, and to a species of Hypericum

rose oil noun

A fragrant oil expressed from rose petals

roseˈ-pink adjective

  1. Rose-coloured
  2. Sentimental

noun

  1. A pink colour
  2. A pink pigment

rose quartz noun

A rose-coloured quartz

rose rash noun

Roseola

roseˈ-red adjective

Red as a rose

roseˈroot noun

A stonecrop (Sedum rosea) with rose-scented root

roseˈ-tinted adjective

Rose-coloured (lit and figurative)

rose topaz noun

A topaz coloured pink by heat

rose tree noun

A standard rose

roseˈwater noun

Water distilled from rose petals

adjective

  1. Sentimental
  2. Superfine
  3. Comfortable

rose window noun

A round window with tracery of radiating compartments

roseˈwood noun

A valuable heavy dark-coloured wood of many trees, esp Brazilian and Indian species of Dalbergia (family Papilionaceae), said to smell of roses when fresh-cut

rosewood oil noun

Oil of rhodium

roˈsy-bosˈomed adjective

roˈsy-cheeked adjective

roˈsy-colˈoured adjective

rosy cross noun

The emblem of the Rosicrucians

rosy drop noun

Rose drop

rosy finch noun

Any of a genus (Leucosticte) of finches of western N America and E Asia with bright pink tinted plumage

roˈsy-fingˈered adjective

Homer's favourite epithet (rhododaktylos) of the dawn

roˈsy-footˈed adjective

all roses see roses all the way below.

bed of roses see under bed1

come out (or up) smelling of roses

To emerge from a series of events, etc seemingly innocent, with image untainted or undamaged

look or see through rose-coloured (or rose-tinted or rosy) spectacles or glasses

To view matters over-optimistically

roses all the way or all roses

  1. Pleasant, happy
  2. Without difficulties, problems, etc

under the rose

  1. In confidence
  2. Privately

Wars of the Roses

A disastrous dynastic struggle in England (1455–85) between the Houses of Lancaster and York, from their respective emblems, the red and the white rose
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