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English

Etymology

Old English botm, bodan "ground, soil, lowest part," from Proto-Germanic *buthm- (cf. Old Frisian boden "soil," German Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from Proto-Indo-European base *bhudh- (cf. Sanskrit budhnah, Greek pythmen "foundation," Latin fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," Old Irish bond "sole of the foot"). Meaning "posterior of a man" is from 1794; the verb "to reach the bottom of" is from 1808. Bottom dollar "the last dollar one has" is from 1882.

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses:
    1. The part furthest in the direction toward which an unsupported object would fall.
    2. The part seen, or intended to be seen, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the lowest visible objects, as "footers appear at the bottoms of pages".
  2. The buttocks or anus.
  3. The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
  4. A submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
  5. A gay man who likes take a passive sexual role rather than an active role (e.g. to be penetrated in anal sex rather than to penetrate).
  6. a cargo vessel, a ship.
  7. certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.


Synonyms


Antonyms

  • (1), (2), (5): top


Related terms

Translations

Verb

  1. To fall to the lowest point.
  2. :John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships (2004) p. 119:
  3. ::The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
  4. To be the source of support or authority for something.
  5. :United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, (2001) p.59.
  6. ::Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
  7. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.


Adjective

  1. The lowest or last place or position.
  2. :''Those files should go on the bottom shelf.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[o^]t"t[u^]m), n. [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. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for
bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base.
[root]257. 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.
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Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak.
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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.
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Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay.
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No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low
backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W.
Irving.
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3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal
or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
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4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
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5. The fundament; the buttocks.
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6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;
low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the
high grounds." --Stoddard.
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8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under
water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak.
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Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London
in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft.
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Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a
large amount of merchandise.
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9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
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10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson.
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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.
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He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
--Addison.
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bottom \Bot"tom\, n. [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See
Button.]
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.]
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Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
--Mortimer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bottom \Bot"tom\, a.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom
prices.
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Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.
--Milton.
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Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands.

Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
[Obs.]
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottomed (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Bottoming.]
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1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --
followed by on or upon.
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Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
--Atterbury.
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Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many
bottom their eternal state]. --South.
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2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
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3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. i.
1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or
grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
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Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
--Locke.
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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.
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WordNet bottom
adj 1: situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom
drawer" [syn: bottom(a)] [ant: side(a), top(a)]
2: at the bottom; lowest or last; "the bottom price" [syn: lowest]
3: the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class" [syn: poorest]
n 1: the lower side of anything [syn: underside, undersurface]
2: the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of
the hill"
3: 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?" [syn: 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, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
4: the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
[syn: bottom of the inning] [ant: top]
5: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he
searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed]
6: low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn: bottomland]
7: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in
foreign bottoms" [syn: freighter, merchantman, {merchant
ship}]
v 1: provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs"
2: strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
3: come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom]
Moby Dictionary
argosy , arse , ass , at bottom , backbone , backside , bark , basal ,
base , basement , basic , basically , basin , basis , baygall , bed ,
bedrock , behind , belly , best , boat , bog , bottom glade , bottomland ,
bottommost , bottoms , breech , bucket , buffalo wallow , bum , butt ,
buttocks , can , cause , channel , chutzpah , coulee , courage , craft ,
cut , dale , dell , depths , derriere , dingle , duff , end , essentiality ,
essentially , establish , everglade , fanny , fen , fenland , floor ,
foot , footing , found , foundation , foundational , fundament ,
fundamentally , gameness , gap , gill , giveaway , glade , glen ,
gluteus maximus , grit , ground , groundwork , grove , guts , gutsiness ,
guttiness , half-price , heart , heart of oak , heinie , hindquarters ,
hog wallow , holm , hooker , hulk , hull , in reality , in truth ,
intervale , intestinal fortitude , keel , keister , leviathan , low ,
lower strata , lowermost , lowest , lowest level , lowest point ,
lunar rill , marais , marish , marked down , marrow , marsh , marshland ,
meadow , mere , mettle , mettlesomeness , mire , moor , moorland , morass ,
moss , moxie , mud , mud flat , nadir , nerve , nethermost , nub ,
ocean bottom , origin , packet , pass , peat bog , pith , pluck ,
pluckiness , posterior , prat , predicate , primary , quagmire ,
quicksand , quintessence , quintessential , radical , ravine , really ,
rear , rear end , reduced , rest , rock-bottom , rump , sacrificial ,
salt marsh , seat , ship , slashed , slob land , slough , sole , sough ,
soul , source , spirit , spunk , spunkiness , stamina , stay ,
stout heart , strath , stuff , substance , substructure , sump , swale ,
swamp , swampland , taiga , toughness , trench , trough , true grit ,
truly , tub , tuchis , tush , tushy , underbelly , underlying ,
underlying level , undermost , underneath , underpinning , underside ,
vale , valley , vessel , virtuality , wadi , wallow , wash , watercraft


FOLDOC bottom

The least defined element in a given domain.

Often used to represent a non-terminating computation.

(In LaTeX, bottom is written as \perp, sometimes with the
domain as a subscript).

(1997-01-07)


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