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–noun
1.the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top: the bottom of a hill; the bottom of a page.
2.the under or lower side; underside: the bottom of a typewriter.
3.the ground under any body of water: the bottom of the sea.
4.Usually, bottoms. Also called bottom land. Physical Geography. low alluvial land next to a river.
5.Nautical.
a.the part of a hull between the bilges, including the keel.
b.the part of a hull that is immersed at all times.
c.the cargo space in a vessel.
d.a cargo vessel.
6.the seat of a chair.
7.Informal. the buttocks; rump.
8.the fundamental part; basic aspect.
9.bottoms, (used with a plural verb) the trousers of a pair of pajamas.
10.the working part of a plow, comprising the plowshare, landside, and moldboard.
11.the cause; origin; basis: Try getting to the bottom of the problem.
12.Baseball.
a.the second half of an inning.
b.the last three players in the batting order.
13.lowest limit, esp. of dignity, status, or rank: When people sink that low, they're bound to reach the bottom soon.
14.Usually, bottoms. Chemistry. the heaviest, least volatile fraction of petroleum, left behind in distillation after more volatile fractions are driven off.
–verb (used with object)
15.to furnish with a bottom.
16.to base or found (usually fol. by on or upon).
17.to discover the full meaning of (something); fathom.
18.to bring (a submarine) to rest on the ocean floor: They had to bottom the sub until the enemy cruisers had passed by.
–verb (used without object)
19.to be based; rest.
20.to strike against the bottom or end; reach the bottom.
21.(of an automotive vehicle) to sink vertically, as when bouncing after passing over a bump, so that the suspension reaches the lower limit of its motion: The car bottomed too easily on the bumpy road.
–adjective
22.of or pertaining to the bottom or a bottom.
23.located on or at the bottom: I want the bottom book in the stack.
24.lowest: bottom prices.
25.living near or on the bottom: A flounder is a bottom fish.
26.fundamental: the bottom cause.
27.bottom out, to reach the lowest state or level: The declining securities market finally bottomed out and began to rise.
28.at bottom, in reality; fundamentally: They knew at bottom that they were only deceiving themselves. Also, at the bottom.
29.bet one's bottom dollar,
a.to wager the last of one's money or resources.
b.to be positive or assured: You can bet your bottom dollar that something will prevent us from leaving on time.
30.bottoms up, (used interjectionally to urge the downing of one's drink).

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME botme, OE botm; akin to ON botn, D bodem, G Boden, L fundus, Gk pythmn, Skt budhná]

1. base, foot. 8, 11. foundation, groundwork.
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bot·tom    Audio Help   (bŏt'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The deepest or lowest part: the bottom of a well; the bottom of the page.
  2. The part closest to a reference point: was positioned at the bottom of the key for a rebound.
  3. The underside: scraped the bottom of the car on a rock.
  4. The supporting part; the base.
  5. The far end or part: at the bottom of the bed.
    1. The last place, as on a list.
    2. The lowest or least favorable position: started at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.
    3. Nautical The part of a ship's hull below the water line.
    4. A ship; a boat: "English merchants did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" (G.M. Trevelyan).
  6. The basic underlying quality; the source: Let's get to the bottom of the problem.
  7. The solid surface under a body of water.
  8. Low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river. Often used in the plural. Also called bottomland.
    1. Nautical The part of a ship's hull below the water line.
    2. A ship; a boat: "English merchants did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" (G.M. Trevelyan).
  9. The trousers or short pants of pajamas. Often used in the plural.
  10. Informal The buttocks.
  11. The seat of a chair.
  12. Baseball The second or last half of an inning.
  13. Staying power; stamina. Used of a horse.

v.   bot·tomed, bot·tom·ing, bot·toms

v.   tr.
  1. To provide with an underside.
  2. To provide with a foundation.
  3. To get to the bottom of; fathom.

v.   intr.
  1. To be or become based or grounded.
  2. To rest on or touch the bottom.

Phrasal Verb(s):
bottom out
To descend to the lowest point possible, after which only a rise may occur: Sales of personal computers have bottomed out.

Idiom(s):
at bottom
Basically.

[Middle English botme, from Old English botm.]

bot'tom·er n.
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bottom 
O.E. botm, bodan "ground, soil, lowest part," from P.Gmc. *buthm- (cf. O.Fris. boden "soil," O.N. botn, O.H.G. bodam, Ger. Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from PIE base *bhu(n)d(h)- (cf. Skt. budhnah, Avestan buna- "bottom," Gk. pythmen "foundation," L. fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," O.Ir. 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.

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bottom

adjective
1. situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom drawer" [ant: side, top
2. the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class" 

noun
1. the lower side of anything 
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
4. the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat [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" 

verb
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

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bottom1 [ˈbotəm] noun
the lowest part of anything
Example: the bottom of the sea
Arabic: قاع، قَعْر، أسْفَل
Chinese (Simplified): 底部
Chinese (Traditional): 底部
Czech: dno
Danish: bund
Dutch: bodem
Estonian: põhi
Finnish: pohja
French: fond
German: der Boden
Greek: πυθμένας, πάτος
Hungarian: fenék, vminek az alja
Icelandic: botn
Indonesian: dasar
Italian: fondo
Japanese:
Korean: 밑바닥
Latvian: apakšējā daļa; pamats; dibens
Lithuanian: dugnas
Norwegian: bunn
Polish: dno
Portuguese (Brazil): fundo
Portuguese (Portugal): fundo
Romanian: fund
Russian: дно
Slovak: dno
Slovenian: dno
Spanish: fondo
Swedish: botten
Turkish: taban, dip
bottom2 [ˈbotəm] noun
the part of the body on which a person sits
Arabic: مُؤَخَّرَه، عَجْز
Chinese (Simplified): 屁股
Chinese (Traditional): 屁股
Czech: zadnice
Danish: bag; ende
Dutch: achterste
Estonian: istmik
Finnish: takamus
French: derrière
German: der Hintern
Greek: πισινός
Hungarian: fenék
Icelandic: bakhluti, rass
Indonesian: bokong
Italian: sedere
Japanese: しり
Korean: 엉덩이
Latvian: sēžamvieta
Lithuanian: sėdynė
Norwegian: bakdel, rumpe
Polish: siedzenie
Portuguese (Brazil): bunda
Portuguese (Portugal): traseiro
Romanian: fund, dos
Russian: зад
Slovak: zadok
Slovenian: zadnjica
Spanish: trasero, culo
Swedish: ända, stjärt
Turkish: kıç, popo
See also: be at the bottom of, bottomless, get to the bottom of

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Bottom

The lowest point or price reached by a financial security, commodity, index or economic cycle in a given time period, which is followed by a steady increase.

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If a stock has "bottomed out" it means it has reached its low point and is now in the early stages of an upward trend.

The bottom is the lowest level of support when charting a stock, commodity, index or economic cycle.

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bottom

The lowest price to which a stock, market index, or another asset will sink. Compare top.

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bottom theory
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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Walnut Bottom, PA Zip code(s): 17266

Stony Bottom, WV Zip code(s): 24927

Peach Bottom, PA Zip code(s): 17563

Long Bottom, OH Zip code(s): 45743

Hop Bottom, PA (borough, FIPS 35624) Location: 41.70643 N, 75.76722 W
Population (1990): 345 (145 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 18824

Fraziers Bottom, WV Zip code(s): 25082

Clover Bottom, KY Zip code(s): 40447

Broad Bottom, KY Zip code(s): 41501

Ship Bottom, NJ (borough, FIPS 67110) Location: 39.64510 N, 74.18327 W
Population (1990): 1352 (2084 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)

Beech Bottom, WV (village, FIPS 5452) Location: 40.22630 N, 80.65205 W
Population (1990): 415 (146 housing units)
Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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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.

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.) 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.
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Bot"tom\, a. 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.
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Bot"tom\, a. 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.
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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.
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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.
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Bot"tom\, n. [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button.] A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.]

Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. --Mortimer.
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Bot"tom\, v. t. 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.
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Bot"tom*ry\, n. [From 1st Bottom in sense 8: cf.D. bodemerij. Cf. Bummery.] (Mar.Law) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
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Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n. Founding.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st Bottom, and cf. Founder, v. i., Fund.]

1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.

A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.

It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt. vii. 25.

2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. --Milton.

Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See Predicate.
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Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile.]

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. --Pope.

2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.]

3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.]

Bottom glade. See under Bottom.

Glade net, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades.
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In"ter*val\, Intervale \In"ter*vale\, n. A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.]

The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. --The Century.
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Pro*found"\, a. [F. profond, L. profundus; pro before, forward + fundus the bottom. See Found to establish, Bottom lowest part.]

1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." --Milton.

2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

3. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. "Profound sciatica." --Shak.

Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. --Milman.

4. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.

What humble gestures! What profound reverence! --Duppa.
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