cama

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bed

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cama
feminine noun
1 bed
  • estar en o guardar cama -> to be confined to bed
  • hacer la cama -> to make the bed
  • hacerle o ponerle la cama a alguien (figurative) -> to plot against somebody
  • irse a la cama -> to go to bed
  • cama de agua -> water bed
  • cama doble -> double bed
  • cama de hospital -> hospital bed
  • cama individual -> single bed
  • cama de matrimonio -> double bed
  • cama nido -> pull-out bed
  • cama de rayos UVA (under other bed) -> sunbed
  • cama turca -> divan bed

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cama [cah’-mah]
noun
1 Bed, couch, a place of repose. (f)
  • Cama con ruedas -> a truck-bed
2 Bed hangings and furniture. (f)
3 Seat or couch of wild animals. (f)
4 Floor or body of a cart. (f)
5 (f)
verb
6 CAMADA.
7 Litter, the straw laid under animals or on plants.
8 Slice of meat put upon another, to be both dressed together.
9 The axle of a wheel.
10 Branch of a bridle to which the reins are fastened; the cheek.
11 Piece of cloth cut slopewise, to be joined to another to make a round cloak.
12 Layer of dung and earth for raising plants; a garden-bed.
13 (Central America & Mecahnic) (m)
14 Bed plate, base. (m)
15 Layer, stratum. (Geology) (m)
  • Hacer cama -> to keep one’s bed, to be confined to one’s bed on account of sickness
  • Hacer la cama -> to make the bed
  • Caer en cama -> to fall sick
  • Cama elástica -> trampoline
  • Camas gemelas -> twin beds
  • Cama de matrimonio -> double bed
  • Cama plegable -> folding bed
  • Cama redonda -> group sex
  • Cama turca -> divan bed
cog, catch, tooth.

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cama
sustantivo:femenino
1 bed
una cama para los invitados a spare bed; una habitación con dos camas a twin-bedded room; está en la cama durmiendo he's asleep in bed; he's in bed sleeping
caer en camacaer to fall ill
estar en camaestar to be in bed
guardar camaguardar to stay in bed
hacer la camahacer to make the bed
irse a la camairse to go to bed
llevarse a algn a la camallevarse to get sb into bed
meterse en la camameterse to go to bed
mojar la camamojar to wet the bed; wet one's bed
cama camera three-quarter bed
cama de agua water bed
cama de campaña camp bed
cama de matrimonio double bed
cama de tijera folding bed
cama doble double bed
cama elástica trampoline
cama individual single bed
cama litera bunk bed
cama nido truckle bed; trundle bed; (EEUU)
cama plegable folding bed
cama redonda group sex
cama solar sunbed
cama turca divan bed
quien mala cama hace en ella yace you've made your bed and now you must lie in it
2 [de carro] floor
3 (Geología) layer

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