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Meaning of 'bottom' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bottom [ a.]
- Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
2 . Bottom [ n.]
- 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.
- 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.
- That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
- The fundament; the buttocks.
- An abyss.
- Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
- The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
- Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
- Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
3 . Bottom [ v. i.]
- To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
- 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.
4 . Bottom [ v. t.]
- To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
- To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
- To reach or get to the bottom of.
- To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

Meaning of 'bottom' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . bottom [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Example in sentence:
  • are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?;
  • he deserves a good kick in the butt
Meaning (2):
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
Example in sentence:
  • he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
Meaning (3):
- a cargo ship
Example in sentence:
  • they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
Meaning (4):
- the lowest part of anything
Example in sentence:
  • they started at the bottom of the hill
5 . bottom [ v]
Meaning (5):
- provide with a bottom or a seat
Example in sentence:
  • bottom the chairs
6 . bottom [ a]
Meaning (6):
- situated at the bottom or lowest position
Example in sentence:
  • the bottom drawer
7 . bottom [ s]
Meaning (7):
- the lowest rank
Example in sentence:
  • bottom member of the class

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