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BOTTOM
bottom
(adjective) the lowest rank; “bottom member of the class”
bottom
(adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position; “the bottom drawer”
bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship
(noun) a cargo ship; “they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms”
buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; “he deserves a good kick in the butt”; “are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?”
bottom, underside, undersurface
(noun) the lower side of anything
bottom
(noun) the lowest part of anything; “they started at the bottom of the hill”
bed, bottom
(noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water; “he searched for treasure on the ocean bed”
bottomland, bottom
(noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river
bottom, bottom of the inning
(noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
penetrate, fathom, bottom
(verb) come to understand
bottom
(verb) strike the ground, as with a ship’s bottom
bottom
(verb) provide with a bottom or a seat; “bottom the chairs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)
The lowest part of anything.
A garment worn to cover below the torso (as opposed to the top)
(uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
(now, chiefly, US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
The buttocks or anus.
(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
(LGBT, slang) A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
(physics) A bottom quark.
(often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
An abyss.
(obsolete) Power of endurance.
(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
Synonyms
• (lowest part): base
• (buttocks): See buttocks
• (buttocks, British, euphemistic): sit upon, derriere, ?
• (BDSM): catcher
• (LGBT): See male homosexual
Antonyms
• (lowest part): top
• (BDSM): top
• (LGBT): See male homosexual
Hyponyms
(Hyponyms of bottom (noun)):
• power bottom
• rock bottom
Verb
bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)
(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
(transitive, chiefly, in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
(obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
(intransitive) To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
Adjective
bottom (not comparable)
The lowest or last place or position.
Proper noun
Bottom (plural Bottoms)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bottom is the 17526th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1607 individuals. Bottom is most common among White (87.55%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Bot"tom, n. Etym: [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn ), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr.budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.]
1. 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. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.
2. 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. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.
3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
5. The fundament; the buttocks.
6. An abyss. [Obs.] Dryden.
7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." Stoddard.
8. (Naut.)
Definition: The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.
9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. Johnson. At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper.
– To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison.
– To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked.
– To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.
Bot"tom, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands.
– Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.
Bot"tom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottomed (p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming.]
1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South.
2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
3. To reach or get to the bottom of. Smiles.
Bot"tom, v. i.
1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon. Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. Locke.
2. 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.
Bot"tom, n. Etym: [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button.]
Definition: A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.] Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer.
Bot"tom, v. t.
Definition: To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.] As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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