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bottom

[bot-uhm]

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noun

the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top: the bottom of a hill; the bottom of a page.

the under or lower side; underside: the bottom of a typewriter.

the ground under any body of water: the bottom of the sea.

Usually, bottoms. Also called bottom land. Physical Geography. low alluvial land next to a river.

Nautical.

the part of a hull between the bilges, including the keel.

the part of a hull that is immersed at all times.

the cargo space in a vessel.

a cargo vessel.

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the seat of a chair.

Informal. the buttocks; rump.

the fundamental part; basic aspect.

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.

the second half of an inning.

the last three players in the batting order.

13.

lowest limit, especially 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.

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verb (used with object)

15.

to furnish with a bottom.

16.

to base or found (usually followed 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.

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to run away hurriedly; flee.

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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.

Verb phrase

27.

bottom out, to reach the lowest state or level: The declining securities market finally bottomed out and began to rise.

Idioms

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,

to wager the last of one's money or resources.

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:
before 1000; Middle English botme, Old English botm; akin to Old Norse botn, Dutch bodem, German Boden, Latin fundus, Greek pythmḗn, Sanskrit budhná

Related forms

un·bot·tom, verb (used with object)

un·der·bot·tom, noun

Synonyms
1. base, foot. 8, 11. foundation, groundwork.

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Example Sentences

One-third said decision makers thought the environmental programs would have a slight negative effect on the bottom line.

But the commission can partially redeem itself by quickly getting to the bottom of some unanswered questions.

Join two explorers as they race to the bottom of the world.

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One-third said decision makers thought the environmental programs would have a slight negative effect on the bottom line.

But the commission can partially redeem itself by quickly getting to the bottom of some unanswered questions.

Join two explorers as they race to the bottom of the world.

Have you ever noticed how a coin at the bottom of a swimming pool seems to.

The truck came by slowly and a spotlight swept the river bottom.

Measure the sides of both the top and bottom of the tin, and cut.

If you hold a slinky for the top and drop it, the bottom part seems to stay stationary for a bit.

The pages numbers in my dissertation are in the bottom left hand corner.

At the bottom of the heap, hideous discrimination persists.

Battling furious winds and rain, a team of cavers explores a bleak island at the bottom of the world.

The objective of the game is to move and rotate falling geometric shapes to form complete rows at the bottom of the game board.

It is the seventh and deciding game, the bottom of the ninth inning.

The bottom point should line up with the top of the horizontal shelf.

The weirdest aspect is that double-crank and double bottom bracket.

In sum, this means that the top quartile is continuing to pull away from the bottom quartile in this measure of spending.

The twins still watch their bottom line, to the economy's detriment.

Fold the two short edges of the bag's bottom over the bottom of the box.

As the bottom left chart shows, such disintegration resulted in a steep decline in carbon dioxide emissions in that region.

Click on the entrance gate at bottom right and, remember, don't be afraid to get lost.

Wrap the floss around the front of the card seven times, so that it lies in a different bottom notch with each loop.

But when those at the bottom don't understand the unequal distribution of wealth.

If universities hire us to improve their bottom lines, then they must expect us to work with a view toward our own bottom lines.

Moribund demand for homes, despite rock bottom rates, is an important part of the reason.

The newest layers are on the top and the oldest layers are on the bottom.

You've seen the game of pachinko-a small metal ball dropped into a thicket of horizontal pegs rattles its way to the bottom.

The anemometer at the bottom is still, but the ones higher up are turning slowly.

For best results, the pan must be flat on the bottom and the batter swirled to the edge.

Both the bottom and the top spring force have a r m term in them.

Research finds that students from the bottom economic half are increasingly channeled into community colleges.

Pressure is one of the things that the bottom of the sea is famous for.

Wait about two months for the bottom layer to turn into dark brown compost.

For each slope, fold the two long edges and the shaded tab upward, leaving the printed square hidden on the bottom side.

The bottom unit consisted essentially of four landing struts equipped with a retrorocket to cushion the descent.

Blot dry the bottom of the bouquet before taking it down the aisle.

The top term also has this mg term in it where the bottom spring as a v term in.

And this summer, the factors that affect the bottom line could indicate even more.

The amount of water will decrease, until eventually the nuclear core at the bottom is uncovered.

As bacteria decompose the dead material, oxygen is depleted from bottom waters.

Such a steep slope will allow less wave friction with the bottom and increase the average wave size striking the beach.

Ben reports that he is having trouble making headway because loose sand is falling into the bottom of the hole.

Turn the planter box upside down and remove any existing feet from its bottom.

In order to remove the rubber plug in the bottom of the shoe to install the cleat, you have to slice it out with a knife.

Then the bottom fell out of the financial markets, and colleges' endowments plummeted.

Others-it is feared-displace local skills and depress wages at the bottom.

More information is provided at the bottom of this page.

Wrap the mattress in canvas and put a zipper down one side and along the bottom.

After it dried, he ran masking tape across the fence and applied darker blue paint along the bottom.

Now, touch the steel band with your other hand, preferably the left and bottom sides together.

The bottom line, however, is in academic achievement.

Last year the state's income per head was eighth from the bottom of the state rankings.

As you dispose of the container from your frozen dinner, you notice a number on the bottom of the package.

The bottom line is that brain scans tell you something about brains, but little about behavior.

No matter what you do, the tree is going to shed needles destined to become lodged in the bottom of your foot.

If you look closely, you can see that the cap at the bottom has been chewed through to form a little escape hatch.

Basically, you hold by supporting it with two fingers from the bottom.

When it comes to study abroad, university officials must constantly balance their overseas aspirations with the bottom line.

Virtuous this may be, but it has not been good for the bottom line.

Grasp both bottom corners of the shirt closest to you, and fold the shirt almost in half, toward the top of the shirt.

After a quick breath at the surface, dolphins swim to the bottom of the pool and expel a long, silvery ring of air.

See what's on the other ornaments at the bottom of this page.

Partially cover the hole in bottom of pot with a pottery shard to prevent soil from spilling out.

Attach your lighting fixture firmly to the bottom of your box, then drill a hole for your cord to exit the box.

Work is directed, to a certain extent, by stakeholders that use the research for improving their bottom line.

Families at the bottom cannot help but compare their living standards with those of the relatively affluent majority.

Use the navigator box on the bottom left of the image as a shortcut.

After the plants die they drift to the bottom and their decomposition sucks the oxygen out of the seawater.

So grab good stocks and invest that's the bottom line.

Give yours an eco-upgrade with these tips for greening your bathroom from the bottom up.

In skateboarding circles, what's on the bottom of your deck is as important as landing a hardflip on top of it.

Unless you want to start at the bottom of the ladder, you may want to get a business degree.

People see the bare sea bottom littered with flopping fish and stranded boats.

But these microbes did not start out at the top of the bottom.

Salamanders cling to the sides, bottom and drain gate of the reservoir and swim through the water.

Along top and bottom of single-leaf rows, cut out triangular notches and.

Don't forget to stir while you heat or it might scorch on the bottom.

Bottom line: the corporate rate is not always cheaper than the nonrefundable rate.

Crumple two sheets of newspaper and place them in the bottom of a box or pan.

Holes exist in the bottom where the ice pick went through and caused them to leak.

Carve another cavity at the bottom for a battery-operated lantern.

Start with a horizontal lace across the bottom eyelets.

The bottom line is that if you were not offered further adjunct work, you are officially unemployed.

Because the fish are bottom dwellers, they might be leaping to flush out their gills.

After a long struggle, the bottom of the stream was perfectly smooth.

When the skin starts to crisp and the bottom of the salmon is fairly cooked, place banana leaves on top of the salmon.

Install the application and the bottom row of icons on the main screen.

Traditionally, the point of search is to build an inquiry pool-more at the top means more at the bottom.

However, without the reactor, the sub would not have had enough power to stop itself from sinking to the bottom.

The third needed a little help, as he was slightly too short to push off the bottom of the moat with his feet.

We smoothed out the bottom trim's frillier details with wood filler.

With the opening of the bag facing you, cut up the middle of the bag and over the fold at the bag's bottom.

When a large stick got snagged on the bottom of the sled, he added more water until it floated clear.

Meet three unusual sharks who lurk at the bottom of the sea.

The bottom neck is it showing its neck at heart level.

Use plants with sturdy but still pliable stems for your bottom layer.

Submitted ballots get dropped in a box at the bottom of the machine for later counting.

It's always a red flag when blame is leveled at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Set the minutes by pressing the bottom right button until the three-letter city code blinks.

Once the building stones reached the top, the sand and stone were emptied out the bottom of the vessels.

Butt six of the spacers between bottom rear, top rear, and top front crosspieces.

In the barbecue pecking order, gas grills sit at the bottom.

Bacteria slowly built the mounds, known as stromatolites, layer by layer on the lake bottom.

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World English Dictionary

bottom (ˈbɒtəm)

—n
1.	the lowest, deepest, or farthest removed part of a thing: the bottom of a hill
2.	the least important or successful position: the bottom of a class
3.	the ground underneath a sea, lake, or river
4.	touch bottom to run aground
5.	the inner depths of a person's true feelings (esp in the phrase from the bottom of one's heart)
6.	the underneath part of a thing
7.	nautical the parts of a vessel's hull that are under water
8.	(in literary or commercial contexts) a boat or ship
9.	billiards, snooker a strike in the centre of the cue ball
10.	a dry valley or hollow
11.	(US), (Canadian) (often plural) the low land bordering a river
12.	the lowest level worked in a mine
13.	(esp of horses) staying power; stamina
14.	importance, seriousness, or influence: his views all have weight and bottom
15.	informal the buttocks
16.	at bottom in reality; basically or despite appearances to the contrary: he's a kind man at bottom
17.	be at the bottom of to be the ultimate cause of
18.	get to the bottom of to discover the real truth about
19.	knock the bottom out of to destroy or eliminate

—*adj*
20.	lowest or last: the bottom price
21.	bet one's bottom dollar on, put one's bottom dollar on to be absolutely sure of (one's opinion, a person, project, etc)
22.	of, relating to, or situated at the bottom or a bottom: the bottom shelf
23.	fundamental; basic

—vb (usually foll by on or upon) (foll by on)
24.	(tr) to provide (a chair, etc) with a bottom or seat
25.	(tr) to discover the full facts or truth of; fathom
26.	to base or be founded (on an idea, etc)
27.	(intr) nautical to strike the ground beneath the water with a vessel's bottom
28.	(Austral) mining
	a. to mine (a hole, claim, etc) deep enough to reach any gold there is
	b. to reach (gold, mud, etc) on bottoming
29.	electronics to saturate a transistor so that further increase of input produces no change in output

[Old English botm; related to Old Norse botn, Old High German bodam, Latin fundus, Greek puthmēn]

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Word Origin & History

bottom

O.E. botm, bodan "ground, soil, foundation, lowest part," from P.Gmc. *buthm- (cf. O.Fris. boden "soil," O.N. botn, Du. bodem, 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,

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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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Slang Dictionary

bottom definition

n.
the buttocks. : My bottom is sore from sitting too long.
n.
the second half of a baseball inning. : Wilbur hit a double-bagger in the bottom of the second.
tv.
to drink something to the bottom. : He bottomed the beer and ordered another one.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

bottom definition

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)

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

bottom

In addition to the idioms beginning with bottom, also see at bottom; from head to toe (top to bottom); from the bottom of one's heart; get to the bottom; hit (touch) bottom; knock the bottom out of; rock bottom; touch bottom; you bet your ass (bottom dollar).

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