BEDDINGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbɛdɪŋ/, [ˈbɛɾɪŋ]
• 韻: -ɛdɪŋ
• (in accents with flapping) Homophone: betting

語源 1

From 中期英語 bedding, beddyng, from 古期英語 bedding (“bedding”), equivalent to bed +‎ -ing.

名詞

bedding (countable and uncountable, plural beddings)

1. The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.

   Synonyms: bedclothes, bedlinen

   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:

     Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do.

   • 2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in New York Times‎:

     Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.

2. (British) The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
3. Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.

   Synonym: litter

4. (geology) A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
5. (horticulture) The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.

派生語

• (geology): bedding plane, crossbedding
• (textiles): bedding set, carpet bedding
• (others): : bedding plant, bedding surface

参照

語源 2

From bed +‎ -ing.

動詞

bedding

1. present participle and gerund of bed