bottom
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The lowest part of anything.
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The lowest part of anything.
barrels with the bottoms knocked out
a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out
At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
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The lowest part of anything. The lowest or last position in a rank.
The Red Sox are at the bottom again.
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The lowest part of anything. A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
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figuratoThe lowest part of anything. The lowest part of a container.
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The lowest part of anything. Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
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The lowest part of anything. The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs
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The lowest part of anything. The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
a soda and a bottom of brandy
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The lowest part of anything. The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
single-bottom plow
three-bottom plow
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The remotest or innermost part of something.
Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)
There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
I walked to the bottom of the street.
There was a pit in the bottom of my stomach.
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The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
get to the bottom of it
Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.
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Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
the bottoms and the high grounds
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Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
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The buttocks or anus.
Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!
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The bed of a body of water.
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An abyss.
In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God
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A cargo vessel, a ship.
We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
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Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
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gergoA person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
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gergoA person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse. A sexual submissive.
Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.
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gergoCharacter, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
lack bottom
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desuetoPower of endurance.
This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.
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A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.
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raroA trundle or spindle of thread.
Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.
BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.
[...] three “bottoms or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond;
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obsoletoDregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
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Variante di bottom quarkEllipsis of bottom quark.
Etimologia
PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-? Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn Proto-Germanic *butmaz Proto-West Germanic *botm Old English botm Middle English botme English bottom From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognates Cognate with Yola bothom, bottom (“bottom”), Saterland Frisian Boudem (“floor; ground”), West Frisian boaiem (“floor; ground”), Dutch bodem, boom, boôm (“bottom; ground, soil”), German Boden (“floor; ground; soil”), Limburgish baom (“bottom; ground, soil”), Luxembourgish Buedem (“bottom; earth, soil”), Vilamovian bödum (“bottom; ground”), Danish bund (“bottom”), Elfdalian buottn (“bottom”), Faroese botnur (“bottom”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk botn (“bottom”), Norwegian Bokmål botn, bunn (“bottom”), Swedish botten (“bottom”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic bonn (“base, bottom; sole (of foot)”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; butt of a tree”), Albanian buzë (“rocky chasm”), Armenian անդունդ (andund), անդունդք (andundkʻ, “abyss, chasm”), Northern Kurdish bin (“bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”). The noun sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb sense “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. The term bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is first attested in 1882.
verbo
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To furnish (something) with a bottom.
to bottom a chair
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To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]
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obsoletoTo wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
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To establish or found (something) on or upon.
But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
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To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
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obsoletoTo be based or grounded.
c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms'.
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To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.
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To reach the bottom of something.
Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.
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To fall to the lowest point.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
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desuetoTo be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
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To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
I've never bottomed in my life.
Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.
aggettivo
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The lowest or last place or position.
Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
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Relating to the genitals.
bottom dysphoria
bottom surgery
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