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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak. 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. Barrels with the bottom knocked out --Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W. Irving. 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense foundation; groundwork. 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. 5. The fundament; the buttocks. 6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden. 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. ``The bottoms and the high grounds.'' --Stoddard. 8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence the vessel itself a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft. {Full bottom}, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. 9. Power of endurance; as a horse of a good bottom. 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson. {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. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. --Addison. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bottom \Bot"tom\, n. [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See {Button}.] A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.] Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. --Mortimer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. To wind round something as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.] 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. {Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place a valley; a dale. --Milton. {Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands. {Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bottomed} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Bottoming}.] 1. To found or build upon to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. --Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. --South. 2. To furnish with a bottom; as to bottom a chair. 3. To reach or get to the bottom of --Smiles. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. i. 1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. --Locke. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 [syn: {buttocks}, {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, as of chairs 2: strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom 3: come to understand [syn: {penetrate}, {fathom}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: bottomThe 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)
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