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Meaning Of Bottom

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



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