bottom
Speech parts
1. bottom - Noun
2. bottom - Adjective
3. bottom - Verb
4. bottom - Adjective Satellite
5. Bottom - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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.
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
The fundament; the buttocks.
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
To reach or get to the bottom of.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
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.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
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he deserves a good kick in the butt
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
they started at the bottom of the hill
bottom the chairs