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bottom

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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he deserves a good kick in the butt Source: Internet

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? Source: Internet

he searched for treasure on the ocean bed Source: Internet

they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms Source: Internet

they started at the bottom of the hill Source: Internet

bottom the chairs Source: Internet

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