From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
bottom
adj 1: 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]
n 1: 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]
v 1: 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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak.
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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.
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Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay.
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No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low
backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W.
Irving.
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3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal
or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
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4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
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5. The fundament; the buttocks.
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6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;
low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the
high grounds." --Stoddard.
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8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under
water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak.
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Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London
in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft.
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Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a
large amount of merchandise.
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9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
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10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson.
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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.
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He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
--Addison.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bottom \Bot"tom\, n. [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See
Button.]
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.]
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Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
--Mortimer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.
--Milton.
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Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands.
Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
[Obs.]
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottomed (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Bottoming.]
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1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --
followed by on or upon.
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Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
--Atterbury.
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Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many
bottom their eternal state]. --South.
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2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
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3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. i.
1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or
grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
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Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
--Locke.
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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.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
bottom
<theory> The least defined element in a given domain.
Often used to represent a non-terminating computation.
(In LaTeX, bottom is written as \perp, sometimes with the
domain as a subscript).
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