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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