Meaning of bottom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The lowest part of anything.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. back
4. To have or strike the underside against something: The car bottomed on the gravel.
5. The lowest or last position in a rank.
   countable, uncountable
6. fund, funding
7. To reach the lowest point possible, after which only a rise may occur: Sales of personal computers have bottomed out.
8. A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
   countable, often, plural, uncountable
9. ground (bottom of a body of water)
10. Basically.
11. The lowest part of a container.
    countable, figuratively, often, uncountable
12. ground, basis, foundation
13. Opposite to or farthest from the top:lowermost, lowest, nethermost, undermost.
14. Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
    countable, uncountable
15. very deep. a bottomless pit. bodemloos لا قَعْرَ لَهُ، عَميقٌ جِدّا бездънен sem fundo bezedný bodenlos bundløs απύθμενος, πολύ βαθύς sin fondo põhjatu بسیار عمیق pohjaton sans fond בִּלְתִי מוּגְבַּל अथाह, अगम bezdan feneketlen sangat dalam botnlaus senza fondo 底なしの 밑바닥이 없는 labai gilus bez dibena; ļoti dziļš sangat dalam bodemloosbunnløs bezdenny ډیر ژور sem fundo fără fund бездонный bezodný brez dna koji je bez dna bottenlös ลึกมาก dipsiz, çok derin 無底的 бездонний, безмежний انتہائی گہرا ، ا...
16. The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
    countable, uncountable
17. to be the cause of (usually something bad). Who's at the bottom of these rumours? oorsprong السَّبَبُ في، وَراءَ бивам причина за estar por trás de být příčinou der Grund stå bag βρίσκομαι πίσω από, είμαι η αιτία (συν. για κτ. κακό) estar detrás de algo (millegi) taga seisma اصل و منشاء بودن olla jnk takana être à l'origine de לַעֲמוֹד מַאֲחוֹרֵי किसी खराब चीज का कारण होना biti uzrok vmiért felelős penyebab á bak við, rótin að essere la causa di, essere all'origine di ～の原因である ...의 진짜 원인이다 būt...
    usually
18. The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
    countable, uncountable
19. to discover the explanation or the real facts of (a mystery etc). iets deurgrond يَسْبرُ غَوْرَ، يَكْتَشِفُ حَقيقَةَ الأشْياء разкривам investigar přijít na kloub einer Sache auf den Grund gehen komme til bunds i ερευνώ σε βάθος, εξιχνιάζω llegar al fondo de algo põhjani tungima ته و توی چیزی را درآوردن selvittää pohjia myöten aller jusqu'au fond de לַחֲקוֹר עַד הַיסוֹד असलियत का पता लगाना otkriti uzrok vminek a mélyére hatol menemukan penyebab komast til botns í andare al fondo di ～の真相をきわめる ...
    etc
20. The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
    countable, uncountable
21. fondo, parte inferior; asiento; pop. posaderas, asentaderas; Cuba fondillo.
22. The remotest or innermost part of something.
    countable, uncountable
23. The deepest or lowest part: the bottom of a well; the bottom of the page.
24. The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
    countable, uncountable
25. The part closest to a reference point: was positioned at the bottom of the key for a rebound.
26. Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
    US, countable, uncountable
27. Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
    countable, plural-normally, uncountable
28. The buttocks or anus.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
29. The bed of a body of water.
    countable, uncountable
30. An abyss.
    countable, uncountable
31. A cargo vessel, a ship.
    countable, uncountable
32. Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
    countable, uncountable
33. A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
    countable, slang
34. A sexual submissive.
    broadly, colloquial, countable, slang
35. Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
    British, slang, uncountable
36. Power of endurance.
    dated, uncountable
37. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
    countable, uncountable
38. A trundle or spindle of thread.
    countable, rare, uncountable
39. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
40. Ellipsis of bottom quark.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, particle, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“barrels with the bottoms knocked out”

“a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out”

“At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.”

“No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.”

“Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.”

“The Red Sox are at the bottom again.”

“There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.”

“In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.”

“bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs”

“a soda and a bottom of brandy”

“single-bottom plow”

“three-bottom plow”

“Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)”

“There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.”

“I walked to the bottom of the street.”

“There was a pit in the bottom of my stomach.”

“get to the bottom of it”

“Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.”

“Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?”

“The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.”

“the bottoms and the high grounds”

“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!!”

“In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God”

“We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]”

“My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.”

“Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.”

“James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.”

“Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.”

“lack bottom”

“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.”

“the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.”

“Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.”

“BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.”

“[...] three “bottoms or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond;”

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