Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BOTTOM

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Definitions of BOTTOM

1. The lowest part of anything.
2. An abyss.
3. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
4. The lowest or last place or position.
5. (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
6. (dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.
7. (now, chiefly, US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
8. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
9. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
10. (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
11. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
12. (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
13. (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
14. (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
15. (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
16. (transitive, chiefly, in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
17. (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
18. (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
19. (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
20. To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
21. (BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
22. (gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
23. (transgender) Relating to the genitals.
24. A surname.
25. (usually, in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
26. The remotest or innermost part of something.
27. The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
28. (euphemism) The buttocks or anus. [1794]
29. The bed of a body of water.
30. (countable, BDSM) A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
31. (countable, slang, especially, LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
32. (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.

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Examples of Using BOTTOM in a Sentence

• It has many varieties and flavors, but the two most popular varieties are pearl black milk tea and pearl green milk tea ("pearl" for the tapioca balls at the bottom).
• A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit primarily worn by women that features one piece on top that covers the breasts, and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel, and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks.
• In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed.
• The simpler way is the static compression ratio: the ratio of the volume of the cylinder when the piston is at the bottom of its stroke to that volume when the piston is at the top of its stroke.
• Diffusion pumps use a high speed jet of vapor to direct gas molecules in the pump throat down into the bottom of the pump and out the exhaust.
• The chassis consists of a series of slotted card guides on the top and bottom, into which the cards are slid so they stand on end, like books on a shelf.
• In 2005 they finished bottom of the Eredivisie and were relegated and currently compete in the Eerste Divisie.
• nigriventris prefers bottom feeding on Tubifex (or similar worms), but its main diet consists of algae.
• It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red (bottom) with a counter-changed red-and-white disk slightly to the hoist side of centre.
• The small kilt or modern kilt emerged in the 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt.
• The curve is a graph showing the proportion of overall income or wealth assumed by the bottom x% of the people, although this is not rigorously true for a finite population (see below).
• At the bottom of the trench, the water column above exerts a pressure of , more than 1,071 times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.
• Then rum is added and the mixture is briefly stirred to dissolve the sugar and to lift the mint leaves up from the bottom for better presentation.
• Unlike many other seas, most of the bottom of the Norwegian Sea is not part of a continental shelf and therefore lies at a great depth of about two kilometres on average.
• Niger, a landlocked West African nation that straddles the Sahel, has consistently been ranked on the bottom of the Human Development Index, at 0.

• The talks lasted about two weeks and by the time they finished, it had been secretly agreed that there would be a treaty, and I had a draft of one in the bottom drawer of my safe.

• The Panama microplate is made of oceanic crust basalt, similar to the basalt plateau at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea.
• In handwriting, it was common not to close the bottom of the loop but continue into the leg, saving an extra pen stroke.
• The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.
• Subtitles are text derived from film or television show dialogue that is usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.

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