1. Étendue d'une matière
2. Épaisseur. Deux couches de peinture.
3. Dépôt. Couches géologiques.
4. (Littéraire) Lit. Partager la couche de quelqu'un.
5. Catégorie. Les couches de la population.
6. Linge absorbant. Les couches du bébé.
7. (Au pluriel) Accouchement.
ETYM AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, Dutch bed, bedde, Icel. bedr, Dan. bed, Swed. bädd, Goth. badi, Old High Germ. betti, German bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.
In geology, a single sedimentary rock unit with a distinct set of physical characteristics or contained fossils, readily distinguishable from those of beds above and below. Well-defined partings called bedding planes separate successive beds or strata.
The depth of a bed can vary from a fraction of a centimeter to several meters or yards, and can extend over any area. The term is also used to indicate the floor beneath a body of water (lake bed) and a layer formed by a fall of particles (ash bed).
1. (Geology) A stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock).
2. A depression forming the ground under a body of water; SYN. bottom.
3. A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track.
4. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
5. A plot of ground in which plants are growing.
ETYM Old Fren. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, Italian diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from Latin jaspis a green-colored precious stone. Related to Jasper.
1. A fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures.
2. Folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement; SYN. nappy, napkin.
3. Linen with regular repetitive pattern; such pattern; American, diaper.
1. A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another SYN. level, stratum, sheet.
2. A single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.
3. Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells.
Qui est allongé, qui est au lit.
ETYM Pref. a- in, on + bed.
In bed.
ETYM Latin incumbens, -entis, p. pr. of incumbere to lie down upon, press upon; pref. in- in, on + cumbere (in comp.); akin to cubare to lie down. Related to Incubate.
1. Currently holding an office.
2. (Geology) Lying or leaning on something else.
S'adresse ŕ un chien : tu te couches ; on l'emploie aussi pour des gens de façon insultante : fiche-nous la paix, tais-toi.