'Bottom' definitions:

Definition of 'bottom'

From: WordNet
adjective
Situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom drawer" [ant: side(a), top(a)]
adjective
The lowest rank; "bottom member of the class"
noun
The lower side of anything [syn: bottom, underside, undersurface]
noun
The lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill"
noun
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, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
noun
The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat [syn: bottom, bottom of the inning] [ant: top, top of the inning]
noun
A depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed, bottom]
noun
Low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn: bottomland, bottom]
noun
A cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship]
verb
Provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs"
verb
Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
verb
Come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom, bottom]

Definition of 'Bottom'

From: GCIDE
  • Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bottom'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands.
  • Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bottom'

From: GCIDE
  • Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
  • Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bottom'

From: GCIDE
  • Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. i.
  • 1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bottom'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [root]257. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The fundament; the buttocks. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." --Stoddard. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. [1913 Webster]
  • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
  • Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'bottom'

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Words containing 'Bottom'