bottom
IPA: bˈɑtʌm
noun
- The lowest part of anything.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The far end of somewhere.
- (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- (dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- An abyss.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (broadly, by extension) A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.
- (LGBT slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who prefers the receptive role in anal sex.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- A surname.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark. [(physics) A quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 4,100 to 4,400 MeV.
verb
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- (transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded.
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
- (gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
adjective
- The lowest or last place or position.
- (transgender) Relating to the genitals.
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Examples of "bottom" in Sentences
- Somewhere down the bottom of the page.
- The attendant winds down the ring rails to the bottom.
- A triangulate plate is attached to the bottom of the base.
- The winding key was located at the bottom of the lamp base.
- It just has a camera dropping down to the bottom of the mineshaft.
- At the bottom, the capsule is slowed down with gradual deceleration.
- The openings extend down to the base of the interior convex bottom wall.
- The base cards on the top and bottom of the columns are turned sideways.
- The bottom of the base is corrugated, the bottom of the trays are corrugated.
- The center of the bulged portion of the bottom wall is coplanar with the base.
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