bedding — meaning in English

English meaning

• ballast noun Heavy material carried in a ship, balloon, or vehicle to provide stability.
• bed noun A piece of furniture for sleeping or resting on.
• channel noun A stretch of water connecting two larger bodies of water, or the deeper navigable path through a body of water.

Senses

bedding is used for these senses in English:

• ballast Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
• bed A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
• bed (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
• channel (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.

ballast — full definition

1. noun Heavy material carried in a ship, balloon, or vehicle to provide stability.
2. noun Crushed stone or gravel laid down to form a stable bed for a road or railway track.
3. verb To stabilise something by loading it with heavy material.

bed — full definition

1. noun A piece of furniture for sleeping or resting on.
2. noun A plot of ground prepared for growing plants.
3. noun The bottom of a body of water, such as a river or the sea.
4. verb To place something in a supportive layer or setting; to embed.

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