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What (who) is bottom - definition
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Bottoms; Bottie; Bottom (disambiguation); Bottom (song)
bottom
I. n.
1.
Lowest part, base, foot.
2.
Foundation, basis, groundwork, base.
3.
Dale, valley, meadow, alluvial land.
4.
Ship, vessel, sailing craft.
5.
Fundament, seat, buttocks.
6.
Seat (of a chair).
7.
Stamina, native strength, power of endurance.
8.
Grounds, lees, dregs, sediments.
II. v. a.
Found, establish, build.
III. v. n.
Rest (for support), be based.
Bottom
·noun The fundament; the buttocks.
II. Bottom ·noun An Abyss.
III. Bottom ·noun Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
IV. Bottom ·vt To reach or get to the bottom of.
V. Bottom ·noun A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
VI. Bottom ·noun Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
VII. Bottom ·vt To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
VIII. Bottom ·noun The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
IX. Bottom ·vt To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
X. Bottom ·vt To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support;
- followed by on or upon.
XI. Bottom ·noun The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
XII. Bottom ·noun Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
XIII. Bottom ·vi To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded;
- usually with on or upon.
XIV. Bottom ·noun That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
XV. Bottom ·noun The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
XVI. Bottom ·adj Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
XVII. Bottom ·vi To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
XVIII. Bottom ·noun The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
bottom
¦ noun
1. the lowest point or part of something.
the furthest part or point of something.
(also bottoms) the lower half of a two-piece garment.
2. chiefly Brit. a person's buttocks.
3. archaic stamina or strength of character.
4. Physics one of six flavours of quark.
¦ adjective in the lowest position.
?in the furthest position away in a downhill direction.
¦ verb
1. (of a ship) touch the bottom of the sea.
2. (bottom out) (of a situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving.
Phrases
at bottom fundamentally.
be at the bottom of be the fundamental cause or origin of.
the bottom falls (or drops) out something suddenly fails or collapses.
bottoms up! informal said as a toast before drinking.
get to the bottom of find an explanation for (a mystery).
you (can) bet your bottom dollar informal a particular thing is bound to happen.
Derivatives
-bottomed adjective
bottomless adjective
bottommost adjective
Origin
OE botm, of Gmc origin.
Examples of use of bottom
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2. "But if it‘s out there, the bottom feeders will use it, because there are bottom feeders."
3. Five states in the bottom 10 now were in the bottom 10 then.
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5. Guilty of manslaughter: Ricky, bottom left, and Danny Preddie, bottom right.