Sekirov Dictionary

bottom

UK /ˈbɒt.əm/US /ˈbɑ.təm/

noun 25
verb 11
adjective 2
forms 3
phrases 14

noun25

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the part of something that is lower than all its other parts
- Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
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The lowest or last position in a rank.
- The Red Sox are at the bottom again.
The lowest part of a container.
The bed of a body of water.
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(euphemistic) 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!! — 1986
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A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
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The remotest or innermost part of something.
- There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
- I walked to the bottom of the street.
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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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(slang) A 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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Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
[usually plural] Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
(UK, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
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(old-fashioned) Power 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. — 2017
(informal, slang) A sexual submissive.
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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. — 1596
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An abyss.
- In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God — 1697
Ellipsis of bottom quark.
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A cargo vessel, a ship.
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...] — 1881
The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
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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. — 1707
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(rare) A 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. — 1724
(no longer used) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

verb11

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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. — 1977
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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. — 2004
(slang) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
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(slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- I've never bottomed in my life.
To reach the bottom of something.
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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. — 1790
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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. — 1989
To furnish (something) with a bottom.
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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, […] — 1866
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(no longer used) To be based or grounded.
- Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms'. — 1703
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(no longer used) To 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. — 1590

adjective2

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The lowest or last place or position.
- Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
(euphemistic) Relating to the genitals.

forms

bottomed · bottoming · bottoms

Phrases with bottom

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