The bottom of something is its underside, or lowest point. You might practice swimming by diving to the bottom of a swimming pool to retrieve pennies.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
Noun
a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
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?"
Noun
the lower side of anything
Noun
the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill"
Noun
a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
Noun
low-lying alluvial land near a river
Noun
the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
Verb
come to understand
Verb
strike the ground, as with a ship''s bottom
Verb
provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs"
Adjective S.
the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class"
Adjective S.
at the bottom; lowest or last; "the bottom price"
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal
or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
n.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
n.
The fundament; the buttocks.
n.
An abyss.
n.
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;
low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
n.
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence,
the vessel itself; a ship.
n.
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
n.
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
a.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
v. t.
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --
followed by on or upon.
v. t.
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
v. t.
To reach or get to the bottom of.
v. i.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or
grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
v. i.
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.
n.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
v. t.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
Bottom
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Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state].2.
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Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.2.
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Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
Bottom
As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
Usage Examples
I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
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Other Usage ExamplesFaith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
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