Difference between Cot and Bed

What is the difference between Cot and Bed?

Cot as a noun is a simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed. while Bed as a noun is a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.

Cot

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed. A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks. A crib (child's bed). A finger cover uses to prevent static discharge. A cottage or small homestead.

Bed

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.One's bed, or a bed as a general place or concept.A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed.A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.A deposit of ore, coal etc.A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship's floor; a pallet.A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a Radio DJ talks.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To go to a sleeping bed.To put oneself to sleep.To settle, as machinery.To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.To set out plants in a garden bed.To have sexual intercourse with.

We hope you now know whether to use Cot or Bed in your sentence.

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