Bottom

9 definitions found

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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  197 Moby Thesaurus words for "bottom":
     argosy, arse, ass, at bottom, backbone, backside, bark, basal,
     base, basement, basic, basically, basin, basis, baygall, bed,
     bedrock, behind, belly, best, boat, bog, bottom glade, bottomland,
     bottommost, bottoms, breech, bucket, buffalo wallow, bum, butt,
     buttocks, can, cause, channel, chutzpah, coulee, courage, craft,
     cut, dale, dell, depths, derriere, dingle, duff, end, essentiality,
     essentially, establish, everglade, fanny, fen, fenland, floor,
     foot, footing, found, foundation, foundational, fundament,
     fundamentally, gameness, gap, gill, giveaway, glade, glen,
     gluteus maximus, grit, ground, groundwork, grove, guts, gutsiness,
     guttiness, half-price, heart, heart of oak, heinie, hindquarters,
     hog wallow, holm, hooker, hulk, hull, in reality, in truth,
     intervale, intestinal fortitude, keel, keister, leviathan, low,
     lower strata, lowermost, lowest, lowest level, lowest point,
     lunar rill, marais, marish, marked down, marrow, marsh, marshland,
     meadow, mere, mettle, mettlesomeness, mire, moor, moorland, morass,
     moss, moxie, mud, mud flat, nadir, nerve, nethermost, nub,
     ocean bottom, origin, packet, pass, peat bog, pith, pluck,
     pluckiness, posterior, prat, predicate, primary, quagmire,
     quicksand, quintessence, quintessential, radical, ravine, really,
     rear, rear end, reduced, rest, rock-bottom, rump, sacrificial,
     salt marsh, seat, ship, slashed, slob land, slough, sole, sough,
     soul, source, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, stay,
     stout heart, strath, stuff, substance, substructure, sump, swale,
     swamp, swampland, taiga, toughness, trench, trough, true grit,
     truly, tub, tuchis, tush, tushy, underbelly, underlying,
     underlying level, undermost, underneath, underpinning, underside,
     vale, valley, vessel, virtuality, wadi, wallow, wash, watercraft
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  bottom
       
           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).
       
          (1997-01-07)