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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bottom
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at the bottom of the pecking order
▪ Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order.
at the top/bottom of a list
▪ Her name was at the top of the list of students.
at the top/bottom/end etc (of sth)
▪ At the top of the stairs, she paused.
be (at the) top/bottom of the league (=be the best or the worst team in a group)
bottom drawer
bottom gearBritish English (= the lowest gear)
▪ The car trundled slowly forward in bottom gear.
bottom line
▪ In radio, you have to keep the listener listening. That’s the bottom line.
rock bottom
▪ My personal life had hit rock bottom.
sank to the bottom of
▪ The kids watched as the coin sank to the bottom of the pool.
search sth from top to bottom (=search all the rooms in a building)
▪ They searched the house from top to bottom.
the bottom of a scale
▪ He started at the bottom of the pay scale.
the bottom of a valley
▪ The stream in the bottom of the valley was spanned by a narrow bridge.
the bottom of the gardenBritish English (= the end of the garden, away from the house)
▪ There was a trampoline at the bottom of the garden.
the bottom/foot of a hill
▪ The house was at the bottom of a hill.
the bottom/foot of the page
▪ See the note at the bottom of page 38.
the bottom/foot of the stairs
▪ ‘Lisa,’ he cried from the foot of the stairs.
the bottom/lower edge
▪ The lower edge of the window frame was starting to rot.
the bottom/top of a ladder
▪ She sighed with relief when she reached the bottom of the ladder.
the top/bottom button
▪ He was wearing a white shirt with the top button undone.
the top/bottom corner
▪ The ball flew straight into the top corner of the net.
the top/bottom half
▪ He graduated in the top half of his law school class.
the top/bottom/middle drawer
▪ He opened the bottom drawer and got out a T-shirt.
top/bottom etc set
▪ Adam’s in the top set for maths.
top/bottom right-hand corner
▪ the bottom right-hand corner of the page
top/bottom/next etc shelf
▪ Put it back on the top shelf.
upper/lower/top/bottom lip
▪ His bottom lip was swollen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
river
▪ The river bottom will also provide clues about the current.
▪ My shin had struck a boulder on the river bottom during my spill.
▪ But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom.
▪ In the river bottom, where we finally stopped, the grass was above the door handles.
▪ Former railroad rights of way cut across river bottoms that used to be littered with bustling towns.
▪ In the shedding season, the river bottoms would often be ankle-deep in buffalo hair.
sea
▪ The sea bottom is stony, so we strongly recommend you always sail with something on your feet.
▪ Cruising underwater, you see pale outlines of the irregular sea bottom.
▪ Species somewhat resembling that shown are numerous in the Tertiary marine formations, and similar species live today in sandy sea bottoms.
▪ If the photographs are to be believed, the water is azure blue and clear to the sea bottom.
▪ Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom.
valley
▪ If we stay put they can stay up there and fry the valley bottom, and us with it.
▪ The alternative was to ride along the main highways, which tend to hug the flat land along valley bottoms.
▪ It's large a low level route, sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells.
▪ Quite apart from the major wetlands, every valley bottom below a certain contour line must have been soggy and at times impassable.
▪ Rock and ice falls scarred the slopes and the valley bottom was a sea of fine sand.
▪ In the Itchen and Avon valleys in Hampshire the farms are apparently regularly spaced along the valley bottoms.
■ VERB
drop
▪ When you dropped the unpeeled grape into the glass, it also dropped to the bottom.
fall
▪ The result is that family income has soared at the top and fallen at the bottom.
▪ Residue fell to the bottom of the sea, and lava later pushed the particles back up.
▪ Snow fell off the bottom of her boots all over the tiled floor, but she didn't care.
▪ Some of the Borax will fall to the bottom of the container. 3.
▪ Then he collapsed and fell to the bottom of the tank.
▪ The extra sugar will fall to the bottom. 49.
▪ Apart from the 4-SUBS, traffic levels meant there was little chance for stock to fall out of the bottom of the cascade.
▪ His eyes fell to the bottom of the page.
get
▪ That co-operation will be vital in getting to the bottom of this matter as soon as possible.
▪ We decided to get to the bottom of this!
▪ He would get to the bottom of all this, just as soon as he could get it all clear in his mind.
▪ They want to get to the bottom of everything they see.
▪ I knew Purvis would get to the bottom of it in time.
▪ When I got to the bottom of the hill and looked up, and I saw that beautiful campus, I cried.
▪ Or had her efforts to get to the bottom of the rue Roland mystery taken an unexpected toll on her?
▪ When he got to the bottom, Jack chopped the beanstalk down, and the giant fell to the ground, dead.
hit
▪ At the time, I thought one had hit rock bottom.
▪ Page has hit proverbial rock bottom and has become a walking skeleton living on the streets.
▪ The 28-year-old mechanical engineer's fortunes took a dramatic twist midway through last season when his career hit rock bottom.
▪ They say you have to hit bottom before things start looking up.
▪ It really worries me what the impact could be in a few years when we hit the bottom of the business cycle.
lie
▪ They lay in the bottom of the bag, too discouraged even to talk.
▪ His girlfriend had been woken by the noise, and had found him lying at the bottom of the stairs.
▪ Knowing that self-interest lay at the bottom of his proposal did not prevent my being grateful.
▪ Holman lay at the bottom of the open grave where he'd been roughly dumped.
▪ This was Goat Island, created of silts and clays that had originally lain on the bottom of the vanished Lake Tonawanda.
▪ Floating Fantail My White Fantail spends most of its time either floating at the surface, or lying on the bottom.
▪ The rest, including your own clothes, now lie at the bottom of some deep, evil-smelling swamp.
reach
▪ Ali Christie was straightening his tie as he reached the bottom of the stairs.
▪ In the Wood-Prediction column, have the students number their predictions about which object will reach the bottom of the slide first.
▪ By the time she reached the bottom he had the saloon deck hatch open and was sitting at the table.
▪ It takes nearly two hours to reach the bottom at a depth of just over 3, 000 meters.
▪ When she reached the bottom of the stairs, she began to run towards the door.
▪ The difficultly in reaching the canyon bottom might well ensure it remains pristine.
▪ With air-driven models, especially those that reach the tank bottom, the contact time is greater and little escapes.
▪ When that column reaches the bottom of the page, the cursor will move to the top of the second column.
scrape
▪ Although a primitive recording programme was in progress, the company evidently had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for material.
▪ With a spatula, scrape sides and bottom of bowl before each egg is added.
▪ Add drained sauerkraut and stir well, scraping browned bits from bottom of pan.
sink
▪ It was wrapped in netting and sunk to the bottom.
▪ While it was on top, it lost some of the bubbles and sank to the bottom again.
▪ Clamp it between the two parts of an algae magnet and sink it to the bottom of the tank.
▪ You bring the papers up, but the next day they sink to the bottom again.
▪ During dry periods the water evaporates, and the gypsum sinks to the lake bottom.
▪ He might have sunk to the moss-covered bottom of a clear pond where he was resting like a leaf.
▪ Then he was in the hold, chilly waters around his knees as he sank through the bottom of the boat itself.
▪ There was a time I went down like a stone in a pond and sank clear to the bottom.
start
▪ It goes without saying that you start with the bottom step, to prevent the concrete falling through to the one below.
▪ The movement started from the bottom.
▪ If you're not sure about your standard, do yourself a favour-#start at the bottom and work upwards.
▪ You wan na go join the human race, right? Start at the bottom?
▪ Show her how to start buttoning from the bottom up.
▪ Both groups of students were starting their careers at City College, and both were starting at rock bottom.
▪ If you start at the bottom there's nowhere to go down.
▪ Migden turned to old-fashioned means to launch her career: starting from the bottom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at the top/bottom of the heap
from the (bottom of your) heart
▪ Blood flows out from the heart to the tissues as before, but its return is now forced.
▪ Both versions monitor about a dozen heart parameters, most importantly the flow of blood from the heart.
▪ But speaking from the heart did not seem wise.
▪ In our language-the Ojibwa language-we say the knowledge comes from the heart.
▪ It had not come from the heart of the congregation, but from behind the footlights.
▪ No musical notation, for music must come from the heart and not off a page.
▪ The Hague Appeal will not merely be a cry from the heart.
from top to bottom
▪ And we searched it from top to bottom.
▪ Example 4 is a great lick for covering the whole fretboard from top to bottom.
▪ He was immense, though still lodged from top to bottom within me.
▪ Keep turning the carrot slightly and repeat the motion from top to bottom until you have removed all the peel.
▪ Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom.
▪ Sassenach was created, the great buttress climbed, as it should be, direct from top to bottom.
▪ The lineup appears to be strong from top to bottom, but all the players know Bagwell is the key component.
▪ They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom.
hit/reach rock bottom
▪ After we lost the contract, morale in the office reached rock bottom.
▪ Confidence in the city's police force has hit rock bottom.
▪ Joan Rivers reveals how she hit rock bottom and recovered in her autobiography.
▪ As a result, hotel values hit rock bottom in 1992&.
▪ At the time, I thought one had hit rock bottom.
▪ But this time he does seem to have hit rock bottom.
▪ Ogmore to Barry beach sport hit rock bottom.
▪ The 28-year-old mechanical engineer's fortunes took a dramatic twist midway through last season when his career hit rock bottom.
knock the bottom out of sth
▪ A recession would knock the bottom out of corporate profits.
scrape (the bottom of) the barrel
▪ At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel.
▪ Has Hollywood scraped the barrel for bimbos?
▪ Unions were bargaining for dental insurance, as if scraping the barrel to come up with new benefits.
the bottom line
▪ Most people want to work in a place where they feel valued. That's the bottom line.
▪ Still, the bottom line is that Wisconsin won the game.
▪ The bottom line is, he's gone and he's not coming back.
▪ The bottom line is, men don't change very much after marriage.
the bottom of the pile
▪ At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.
▪ He toyed with the envelope for a couple of seconds, then thrust it back to the bottom of the pile.
▪ He was thrilled to find the cream-colored envelope near the bottom of the pile of greeting cards.
▪ If you are wrong, return the card to the bottom of the pile.
▪ Music for wasted afternoons that's nowhere near the bottom of the pile this week.
▪ The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.
the top and bottom of it
touch bottom
▪ The lake was too deep for their long poles to touch bottom.
▪ Convictions have hardened, for better for worse, and the floaters have touched bottom.
you (can) bet your life/your bottom dollar
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did you fall on your bottom?
▪ pajama bottoms
▪ the ocean bottom
▪ They've got baggy pants with ripped bottoms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He pokes it through the bottom of the popcorn box they share.
▪ However, these warnings frequently appear at the bottom of advertisements in the tiniest of print.
▪ The transponder was released acoustically just after Alvin left the bottom for the last time in this area.
▪ This means that a few get top marks, a big bunch get middling marks, and a few come near the bottom.
▪ Western spadefoot toads burrow into the wash bottom, emerging to produce another batch of mosquito larvae-eating tadpoles during the summer rains.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ She therefore loathes the bottom class and everyone in it.
▪ I stayed in the bottom class, but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class.
▪ I was put in the bottom class.
club
▪ Clough, manager of bottom club Nottingham Forest, is under pressure.
▪ Easington desperately need three points from their last home game of the season against bottom club Whickham.
▪ After the promise of recent weeks, Tottenham meekly succumbed to the Premier League's bottom club.
▪ Also, the future of Gwynedd's bottom club Bangor Normal College needs to be resolved.
▪ For Leicester, the bottom club, teenager Kitson is likely to retain his place in attack.
corner
▪ Harte fired the ball into the bottom corner before heading for the corner flag to celebrate.
▪ Fold the phyllo, in flag fashion, from the left bottom corner up and over the filling to enclose the spinach.
▪ Are the bottom corners bruised and in need of building up?
▪ Maybe with a dollar sign embossed near the bottom corner.
▪ Hidden on the bottom corner stands an old black and white pub, backing on to the river.
▪ Wrap the bottom corner with a couple of layers of masking tape to prevent the scraper from cutting the device.
drawer
▪ The other women hadn't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes.
▪ The bottom drawer was pulled out and empty.
▪ Black's hand found the bottom drawer, and the bottle.
▪ I sat in my bedroom and slipped the scrapbook out of the bottom drawer.
▪ The bottom drawer of her desk proved to be locked, with no sign of a key.
▪ Johnnie found the tacks in the bottom drawer and, whirling on her heels, marched out of the kitchen.
▪ The baby slept in the bottom drawer of the dresser: the kitten had a feather cushion.
▪ Chris attempts to clear his desk by jamming all outstanding items in the biggest, bottom drawer.
edge
▪ Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch.
▪ He brought down the bottom edge of the can right on the crown of the head.
▪ The bottom edge of the curtain was a matter of free links, not a connecting bar.
▪ There was a thin line of light at the bottom edge.
▪ Trim neatly around bottom edge and leave to dry overnight.
▪ Cut a long strip of fondant to wrap around the bottom edge of the ship.
▪ Machine along the bottom edge of the tape, trapping the lining, and across the ends to neaten them off.
▪ Attacks to the abdomen must be no lower than the bottom edge of the belt.
end
▪ At the bottom end he could go no further, and so retraced his steps.
▪ Upon arriving home, he noticed the sapling still had a pretty good root system on the bottom end.
▪ The left and bottom ends of the axis similarly represent the negative poles and the lowest scores.
▪ A good look at the bottom end of a drummer tended to lower crowd sympathy.
▪ At the bottom end of the playing fields is a rocky outcrop.
▪ The only true amateurs left are the ones on the bottom end of the highlights-film, commercial-endorsement food chain.
▪ Crane for plenty of small fish from the bottom end, and some good nets of roach from the Ashtip Field.
▪ He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea.
half
▪ The bottom half of the building was towers, balconies and metal grilles, and the top half was very Hemish merchant.
▪ Place each burger on the bottom half of focaccia.
▪ The bottom half hangs down, allowing me to transfer the envelope to inside my coat.
▪ But now, in the bottom half, our animal brotherhood is forgotten.
▪ He pushed the bottom half of the window upwards and swung one leg over the sill.
▪ The bottom half will say 1951-2001.
▪ Spread the bottom half with the cooled apple filling and cover with the top half of the cake.
▪ But this cramped his writing hand and made writing on the bottom half of the page impossible.
layer
▪ The middle layer contains 24 nodes, each connected to all four outputs from the bottom layer.
▪ In each node of the bottom layer, the inputs are treated as the address of a cell.
▪ Shallow lakes sometimes have a bottom layer of aquatic mosses, which by photosynthesis add oxygen to the water close by.
▪ But a third crate, on its bottom layer, had the latest equipment for long-range detonation of explosives.
▪ She took off everything that could identify her, and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box.
▪ The bottom layer of the model represents the implicit information in the enterprise.
▪ The addition of finely-sifted compost or leaf-mould to the bottom layer with gravel or unwashed coarse sand is ideal.
level
▪ The bottom level, the operational level, involves aspects such as maintaining road position and the use of the car controls.
▪ This put M2 below the bottom level of the Fed's targeted band.
line
▪ Gender should never be used as a bottom line explanation because it is a social construction needing explanation itself.
▪ That, in any case, is the bottom line of a great many studies into the matter.
▪ This is fastened to a top and bottom line which is 100 yards long.
▪ The bottom line is in the ledger book, pure and simple.
▪ When the net is set the top and bottom lines are tight, but the net itself remains slack.
▪ And finally, the bottom line, is the budget approved without long delay and nit-picking?
▪ The bottom line is even bleaker.
▪ The bottom line is, there is no stake in anyone legitimizing campaign financing.
lip
▪ Her teeth sank into her bottom lip, biting back a cry, and she winced.
▪ The bottom lip fattens and pushes out beyond the lower lip.
▪ His teeth closed lightly on her bottom lip.
▪ Her bottom lip is fat and purple and there's a split down the middle.
▪ Kate chewed on her bottom lip.
▪ She drew in her breath sharply and bit down hard on her bottom lip in an effort not to cry out.
▪ The bottom lip protrudes in sullen, worried anticipation.
▪ She looked up at him expectantly, her mouth open, the bottom lip raised, almost brutal in what it implied.
part
▪ The stone walls of the bottom part of the wall section are clearly visible but most of the structure is ivy-clad.
price
▪ So during a recession, glamorous designer names ... offered at rock bottom prices can be alluring.
▪ They're at rock bottom prices, and the only way is up.
rung
▪ Once Romanov had reached the bottom rung of the fire escape, he ran to a passing tram.
▪ It became imperative that he take hold of the bottom rung of the sinuous ladder, which he did.
shelf
▪ The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.
▪ She pointed to a pile of books on the bottom shelf of the bookcase.
▪ All the garages on the bottom shelf are full, but one of the garages on the top shelf is empty.
▪ I took the package from the bottom shelf of the cupboard and scurried back down the hall.
▪ The bottom shelf was wider and it held a square white machine which looked like a document shredder.
▪ They were all on the bottom shelves.
stair
▪ I glimpsed Auntie sitting on the bottom stair as I flew past above her head.
▪ Liz stepped over the bottom stair, which always creaked.
▪ She stepped off the bottom stair on to a carpeted floor.
▪ I forgot I'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs.
step
▪ Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase, affecting surprise at the sight of her.
▪ Denver sat down on the bottom step.
▪ The bottom step submerged means there is good water downstream.
▪ There she was, sitting on the bottom step.
▪ Léonie stood on the bottom step and clutched the metal handrail.
▪ As he reached the bottom step, it occurred to him that Hicks was probably a psychopath after all.
▪ Reaching the bottom step, he turned the beam into the corner, reflecting the sheen of deep mahogany wall panels.
▪ He felt very dizzy, and sat down on the bottom step of the stairs.
third
▪ The gauges and sonar screen are spread across the bottom third of the computer monitor.
▪ For a team that ranks in the bottom third in caring for the ball, this was a triumph of epic proportions.
▪ It has become unfashionable to care about those at the bottom third of the economic ladder.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She looked in the bottom drawer of the chest.
▪ The bottom layer of the cake is made of chocolate and strawberries.
▪ the bottom right-hand corner of the page
▪ The book is on the bottom shelf.
▪ Tim is in the bottom 10% of his class.
▪ You have some peanut butter on your bottom lip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anything which does not contribute to the bottom line of national competitiveness-especially unpredictable commitments outside borders-should be avoided.
▪ Different viewpoints Ultimately, for promoters, agents, venues and artists, the bottom line is the bottom line.
▪ The bottom line is that there is a serious problem.
▪ The bottom line on fat minimums is not yet clear.
▪ The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section.
▪ Upon arriving home, he noticed the sapling still had a pretty good root system on the bottom end.
III.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at the top/bottom of the heap
from the (bottom of your) heart
▪ Blood flows out from the heart to the tissues as before, but its return is now forced.
▪ Both versions monitor about a dozen heart parameters, most importantly the flow of blood from the heart.
▪ But speaking from the heart did not seem wise.
▪ In our language-the Ojibwa language-we say the knowledge comes from the heart.
▪ It had not come from the heart of the congregation, but from behind the footlights.
▪ No musical notation, for music must come from the heart and not off a page.
▪ The Hague Appeal will not merely be a cry from the heart.
from top to bottom
▪ And we searched it from top to bottom.
▪ Example 4 is a great lick for covering the whole fretboard from top to bottom.
▪ He was immense, though still lodged from top to bottom within me.
▪ Keep turning the carrot slightly and repeat the motion from top to bottom until you have removed all the peel.
▪ Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom.
▪ Sassenach was created, the great buttress climbed, as it should be, direct from top to bottom.
▪ The lineup appears to be strong from top to bottom, but all the players know Bagwell is the key component.
▪ They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom.
hit/reach rock bottom
▪ After we lost the contract, morale in the office reached rock bottom.
▪ Confidence in the city's police force has hit rock bottom.
▪ Joan Rivers reveals how she hit rock bottom and recovered in her autobiography.
▪ As a result, hotel values hit rock bottom in 1992&.
▪ At the time, I thought one had hit rock bottom.
▪ But this time he does seem to have hit rock bottom.
▪ Ogmore to Barry beach sport hit rock bottom.
▪ The 28-year-old mechanical engineer's fortunes took a dramatic twist midway through last season when his career hit rock bottom.
the bottom line
▪ Most people want to work in a place where they feel valued. That's the bottom line.
▪ Still, the bottom line is that Wisconsin won the game.
▪ The bottom line is, he's gone and he's not coming back.
▪ The bottom line is, men don't change very much after marriage.
the bottom of the pile
▪ At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.
▪ He toyed with the envelope for a couple of seconds, then thrust it back to the bottom of the pile.
▪ He was thrilled to find the cream-colored envelope near the bottom of the pile of greeting cards.
▪ If you are wrong, return the card to the bottom of the pile.
▪ Music for wasted afternoons that's nowhere near the bottom of the pile this week.
▪ The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.
the top and bottom of it
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She believed that the motivation to lose weight could only come from people bottoming out emotionally.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bottom

Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[o^]t"t[u^]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base.

  1. 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.

    Or dive into the bottom of the deep.
    --Shak.

  2. 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.

    Barrels with the bottom knocked out.
    --Macaulay.

    No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
    --W. Irving.

  3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

  4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

  5. The fundament; the buttocks.

  6. An abyss. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

  7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. ``The bottoms and the high grounds.''
    --Stoddard.

  8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

    My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
    --Shak.

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

    Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

  9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

  10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
    --Johnson.

    At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. ``He was at the bottom a good man.''
    --J. F. Cooper.

    To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.]
    --J. H. Newman.

    He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
    --Addison.

    To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked.

    To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.

Bottom

Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me.
--Shak.

Bottom

Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming.]

  1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.

    Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
    --Atterbury.

    Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state].
    --South.

  2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

  3. To reach or get to the bottom of.
    --Smiles.

Bottom

Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. i.

  1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.

    Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
    --Locke.

  2. 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.

Bottom

Bottom \Bot"tom\, n. [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button.] A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.]

Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
--Mortimer.

Bottom

Bottom \Bot"tom\, a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.
--Milton.

Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands.

Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bottom

Old English botm, bodan "ground, soil, foundation, lowest part," from Proto-Germanic *buthm- (cognates: Old Frisian boden "soil," Old Norse botn, Dutch bodem, Old High German bodam, German Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from PIE root *bhu(n)d(h)- (cognates: Sanskrit budhnah, Avestan buna- "bottom," Greek pythmen "foundation," Latin fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," Old Irish bond "sole of the foot"). Meaning "posterior of a person" is from 1794. Bottom dollar "the last dollar one has" is from 1882. Bottom-feeder, originally of fishes, is from 1866.

bottom

1540s, "to put a bottom on," from bottom (n.). Meaning "to reach the bottom of" is from 1808 (earlier figuratively, 1785). Related: Bottomed; bottoming.

Related phrases:
Wiktionary
bottom

  1. The lowest or last place or position. n. 1 The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses: 2 # (rfc-sense) The part furthest in the direction toward which an unsupported object would fall. 3 # (rfc-sense) The part seen, or intended to be seen, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the lowest visible objects, as "footers appear at the bottoms of pages". 4 (context uncountable British slang English) character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. 5 (context British US English) A valley, often used in place names. 6 (context euphemistic English) The buttocks or anus. 7 (context nautical English) A cargo vessel, a ship. 8 (context nautical English) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater. 9 (context baseball English) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat. 10 (context BDSM English) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity. 11 (context LGBT slang English) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse. 12 (context physics English) A bottom quark. 13 (context often figuratively English) The lowest part of a container. v

  2. 1 To fall to the lowest point. 2 To establish firmly; to found or justify ''on'' or ''upon'' something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest ''on'' or ''upon'' something which provides support or authority. 3 (context intransitive English) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded. 4 (context intransitive English) 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. 5 (context obsolete transitive English) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. 6 (context transitive English) To furnish with a bottom. 7 To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. 8 To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

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bottom

  1. adj. situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom drawer" [syn: bottom(a)] [ant: side(a), top(a)]

  2. at the bottom; lowest or last; "the bottom price" [syn: lowest]

  3. the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class" [syn: poorest]

bottom

  1. n. the lower side of anything [syn: underside, undersurface]

  2. the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill"

  3. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

  4. the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat [syn: bottom of the inning] [ant: top]

  5. a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed]

  6. low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn: bottomland]

  7. a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: freighter, merchantman, merchant ship]

bottom

  1. v. provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs"

  2. strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

  3. come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom]

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Bottom (TV series)

Bottom is a British television sitcom created by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall that originally aired on BBC2 from 17 September 1991 to 10 April 1995 across three series. The show stars Edmondson and Mayall as Eddie Hitler and Richard Richard, two flatmates who live on the dole in Hammersmith, London. The show is noted for its chaotic, nihilistic humour and violent comedy slapstick.

Bottom also spawned five stage-show tours between 1993 and 2003, and a feature film, Guest House Paradiso (1999). Plans for a spin-off series titled " Hooligan's Island" featuring various Bottom characters were cancelled in 2012. In 2008, Bottom came in at No. 45 in the "Britain's Best Sitcom" poll by the BBC. The show currently airs in the UK on Gold and Dave, and has been dubbed in other languages. In Spain the show, known as La pareja basura (The Trash Couple), aired on Canal+.

Bottom

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Bottom (technical analysis)

In the technical analysis of security prices, a bottom is a chart pattern where prices reach a low, then a lower low, and then a higher low.

According to some technical analysis theories, the first low signifies the pressure from selling was greater than the pressure from buying. The second lower low suggests that selling still had more pressure than the buying. The third higher low suggests that buying pressure will not let prices fall as low as the previous low. This turning point from selling pressure to buying pressure is called a bottom.

Bottom (surname)

Bottom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anthony Bottom (born 1951), former member of both the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA)
  • Arthur Bottom (1930–2012), English footballer
  • Daniel Bottom (1864–1937), English cricketer
  • Joe Bottom (born 1955), American former competition swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, and former world record-holder
  • Mike Bottom (c. 1966), head coach of the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving program at the University of Michigan
  • Virgil E. Bottom (1911–2003), American born experimental physicist, contributed to the developing quartz crystal production in the US
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Usage examples of "bottom".

I They secured the end of the rope to one of the poles wedged like an anchor in the opening of the tunnel that led to the crystal cavern, and Craig abseiled down the rope to the water at the bottom of the shaft once more.

Venerian lives upon the bottom of an everlasting sea of fog and his thin epidermis, utterly without pigmentation, burns and blisters as frightfully at the least exposure to actinic light as does ours at the touch of a red-hot iron.

A hundred feet aft, the outer door of the signal ejector opened, and twenty seconds later a solenoid valve in a branch pipe from the auxiliary seawater system popped open, sending high-pressure seawater into the bottom of the signal ejector tube that pushed out the radio buoy.

In between the stones at various levels from top to bottom were large, cavelike spaces where ferns, agapanthus, and calla lilies grew.

When he was eleven years of age, both his parents were killed in a climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, and the youth came under the guardianship of an aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, and went to live with her at the quaintly-named hamlet of Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent.

As the side porches fronting the aisles are on the same level with the main porch, the bottom part of the front is bound together, and the divisions of nave and aisle, emphasised above by the prominent buttresses, are minimised below.

After loading in his few remaining possessions, Alec and Talrien carefully lifted Seregil into the bottom of the boat.

Sensing a potential ally, Alec managed to work up a few tears by the time they reached the bottom of the stairs.

Sometime in the past the entire Altiplano, with its lakes, rose from the bottom of the ocean .

As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.

With the tip of his tongue, he traced her full, bottom lip, and Amelle opened her mouth under his ministrations.

She carefully leaned over the edge and lowered the wires into the ammoniated muck in the bottom, pressing the wires and spray can deep into it.

I understood, would consist of engineered microbes, their genetic material spliced together from bacteria discovered inside rocks in the dry valleys of Antarctica, from anaerobes capable of surviving in the outflow pipes of nuclear reactors, from unicells recovered from the icy sludge at the bottom of the Barents Sea.

They pushed the boat out into the channel and as their feet lost the bottom they began to swim and steered her for the anchored frigate.

After the accident they went ever since they were five year I behind on playing in the gazebo at the bottom of the grassy hill ane with their heads to the Archer place, Kurt and Vivian and Z gether, laughing and colluding as if nothing bad had ever haping ever would.