bottom

The lowest part of anything.countableuncountable

• Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

The lowest part of anything.; The lowest or last position in a rank.countableuncountable

• The Red Sox are at the bottom again.

The lowest part of anything.; A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.countableoftenplural

• There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.

The lowest part of anything.; The lowest part of a container.countablefigurativelyoften

• 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 passpor

The lowest part of anything.; Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.countableuncountable

The lowest part of anything.; The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.countableuncountable

• bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs

The lowest part of anything.; The bass or baritone instruments of a band.countableuncountable

• a soda and a bottom of brandy

The lowest part of anything.; The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.countableuncountable

• single-bottom plow
• three-bottom plow

The remotest or innermost part of something.countableuncountable

• Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)
• There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.

The fundamental part; a basic aspect.countableuncountable

• get to the bottom of it

To furnish (something) with a bottom.transitive

• to bottom a chair

To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).transitive

• We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]

To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).obsolete

• As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.

To establish or found (something) on or upon.transitive

• Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.

To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.transitive

• My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.

To be based or grounded.intransitiveobsolete

• 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.

To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.intransitive

• allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.

To reach the bottom of something.transitive

• Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.

To fall to the lowest point.

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.

To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.datedintransitive

The lowest or last place or position.not-comparable

• Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

Relating to the genitals.not-comparable

• bottom dysphoria
• bottom surgery