Bed base

A bed base, sometimes called a foundation, is the part of a bed that supports the mattress. The bed base is itself held in place and framed by the bedstead (bed frame). In the United States, box spring bed bases are very common (to the point where 'bed base' and 'box spring' may be used synonymously). In Europe, sprung slats are much more common.

There are three main types:

  • A traditional box spring consists of a rigid frame containing extra heavy duty springs. This foundation is often paired with an innerspring mattress, as it extends the life of the spring unit at the mattress's core. All-foam mattresses are often paired with platform-style bases.
  • An all-wood foundation usually has seven or eight support slats disposed below paperboard or beaverboard. This foundation, variously called a "no-flex", "low-flex" or zero-deflection unit, as well as an "ortho box", provides support similar to a platform foundation. All-wood foundations have become increasingly prevalent as U.S. mattress makers shifted to super-thick, one-sided mattresses.
  • Base

    Base or BASE may refer to:

    Mathematics

  • Base (geometry), a side of a plane figure (for example a triangle) or face of a solid
  • Base (group theory), a sequence of distinct elements of a set
  • Base (exponentiation), the number b in an expression of the form bn, also the base of logarithms
  • Base (topology), a topological space
  • Radix or base, the number of distinct digits in a positional numeral system
  • Science and technology

  • Base (chemistry), a substance that can accept hydrogen ions (protons)
  • Beta-alumina solid electrolyte, a fast ion conductor material
  • Base of the heart, a portion of the heart opposite the apex of the heart
  • An attribute to medication in uncombined form, for example erythromycin base
  • Base pair, a pair of connected nucleotides on complementary DNA and RNA strands
  • Nucleobase, in genetics, the parts of DNA and RNA involved in forming base pairs
  • Base, one of the three terminals of a Bipolar junction transistor
  • Computing

  • BASE (search engine), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual consistency (BASE), a consistency model
  • Dress shirt

    A dress shirt, button shirt, button-front, button-front shirt, button-down, button-down shirt, or button-up shirt is a garment with a collar and a full-length opening at the front, which is fastened using buttons or shirt studs.

    Dress shirts are normally made from woven cloth, and are often accompanied by a jacket, collar sleeve, and tie, for example with a suit or formalwear, but shirts are also worn more casually.

    In British English, "dress shirt" means specifically the more formal evening garment worn with black- or white-tie. Some of these formal shirts have stiff fronts and detachable collars attached with collar studs.

    Traditionally dress shirts were worn by men and boys, whereas women and girls often wore blouses or, sometimes, known as chemises. However, in the mid-1800s, they also became an item of women's clothing and are worn by both sexes today.

    The term "button-down" refers to a type of shirt which has a collar fastened down by buttons, but is sometimes used in error to apply to all dress shirts.

    Base (company)

    Base is an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and publishing firm established in 1993. The company has studios located in New York, Brussels, Santiago and Geneva.

    History

    Base was founded in 1993 in Brussels.

    From late 2001 to 2003, Base designed and produced BEople, “a magazine about a certain Belgium.”. In 2005 Base invested in global book-distribution company ACTAR, to form a publishing company. The first book from BuratPublishing was a monograph of artist Maria Ozawa entitled "Are You Experienced to Fuck me?", and was released in 2009. In 2007, Base partnered to open BozarShop, the museum store at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels.

    Awards

  • D&AD Awards 2009 Nominated, BozarShop, online movies
  • “Mixed Messages", Design Culture, v.4, pp. 98.1
  • References

    Stream bed

    A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral confines or channel margins, during all but flood stage, are known as the stream banks or river banks. In fact, a flood occurs when a stream overflows its banks and flows onto its flood plain. As a general rule, the bed is that part of the channel, just at the "normal" water line and the banks are that part above the water line. However, because water flow varies, this differentiation is subject to local interpretation. Usually, the bed is kept clear of terrestrial vegetation, whereas the banks are subjected to water flow only during unusual or perhaps infrequent high water stages and therefore might support vegetation some or much of the time.

    The descriptive terms right bank and left bank are relative to an observer looking downstream, in which the right bank is to the observer's right. A famous example of this is the naming of the two sides of the river Seine in Paris.

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