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hot bed

hot bed noun: a mass of organic matter decomposing and giving off heat from microbial metabolic action.

Noun

hot bed (plural hot beds)

  1. A mass of organic matter decomposing and giving off heat from microbial metabolic action.
  2. A garden bed using such a heat-generating mass; a hotbox.
  3. (broadly, figuratively) A central point of activity, relating to a specific task.
  4. A bed shared by workers, sailors, or soldiers operating in shifts or watches (named for the idea that it is still warm when the next occupant gets into it).
  5. (3D printing) A heated print bed, so as to help the lower levels of extruded filament stick together.

Verb

hot bed (third-person singular simple present hot beds, present participle hot bedding, simple past and past participle hot bedded)

  1. (transitive) To share sleeping accommodations with one or two others serially (in shifts), as on a ship or a submarine or other operation with round-the-clock staffing.
    • The crew of the submarine quickly got used to hot bedding.
    Synonyms:
    hot bunk, hot rack
  2. (transitive) To farm using hotbeds for season extension.

hot bed meaning in Tamil

hot bed in Tamil

செய்நேர்த்தி

Synonyms of hot bed

Forms of hot bed

Noun
pluralhot beds
alternative formhotbed
Verb
third-person singular presenthot beds
present participlehot bedding
past participlehot bedded
pasthot bedded

Questions about hot bed

What does hot bed mean?
Hot bed means a mass of organic matter decomposing and giving off heat from microbial metabolic action.
What is hot bed in Tamil?
Hot bed in Tamil is செய்நேர்த்தி. See Hot bed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hot bed?
Hot bed can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of hot bed?
The plural of hot bed is hot beds.

Words near hot bed in the dictionary

  1. hot bands
  2. hot bar
  3. hot bars
  4. hot bean
  5. hot beans
  6. hot bed
  7. hot bedded
  8. hot bedding
  9. hot beds
  10. hot beef injection
  11. hot beef injections

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot bed (page history and authors); hot bed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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