lake bed
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- noun
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fondo del lago
- The children played on the cracked surface of the lake bed after the water receded.
- dry lake bed
- exposed lake bed
Burning Man Burning Man's a dry lake bed and it's nothing.
- Burning Man Burning Man's a dry lake bed and it's nothing.
- It's alkaline dry lake bed dust.
- So we are going to take all of our cars and do a series of challenges on a dry lake bed out in the desert.
Examples
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Wild rice kernels that fall to the lake bed begin to germinate and establish roots in mid to late April, Wedll tells me.
Academic text (1998) -
The lake bed is an interesting place of speed and stillness.
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We're at a dry lake bed in California somewhere.
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Maybe he was flying up here and then went over the lake bed, which is all cold air and probably lost lift.
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So we are going to take all of our cars and do a series of challenges on a dry lake bed out in the desert.
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It's... this giant dried up lake bed and it goes for miles and miles.
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He was walking along the lake bed.
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It was really fun going flat out over the dry lake beds.
Blog text (18) -
The receding water exposed large expanses of the salty lake bed.
Academic text (1996) -
The lake bed is featured in the opening sequence of Knight Rider, but my favorite movie shot here is The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension from 1984.
Synonyms
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3.1
Ground under the water at the lowest part of a lake
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3.4
The ground at the bottom of a lake under the water or exposed when dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the ground at the bottom of a lake' is directly and compositionally derived from 'lake' (a body of water) + 'bed' (the bottom or base), following normal noun+noun compounding patterns. This is a common, cross-linguistic conceptual combination and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Lake bed comes from the idea of a lake having a bed, the ground under the water where mud and stones rest. That's why it means 'the ground or surface at the bottom of a lake'.