Bottom (n.) The lowest part of anything |
Bottom (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 |
Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense |
Bottom (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. |
Bottom (n.) The fundament |
Bottom (n.) An abyss. |
Bottom (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river |
Bottom (n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water |
Bottom (n.) Power of endurance |
Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds |
Bottom (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom |
Bottom (v. t.) To found or build upon |
Bottom (v. t.) To furnish with a bottom |
Bottom (v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of. |
Bottom (v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support |
Bottom (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. |
Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread |
Bottom (v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. |
Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden |
Discharge (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded |
Discharge (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment |
Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement |
Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden |
Discharge (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile |
Discharge (v. t.) To set aside |
Discharge (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt |
Discharge (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment |
Discharge (v. t.) To give forth |
Discharge (v. t.) To prohibit |
Discharge (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden |
Discharge (v. t.) The act of discharging |
Discharge (v. t.) Firing off |
Discharge (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement |
Discharge (v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like |
Discharge (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. |
Discharge (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out |
Emptying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Empty |
Emptying (n.) The act of making empty. |
Emptying (n.) The lees of beer, cider, etc. |
Gallery (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking |
Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art |
Gallery (a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns |
Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850. |
Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery. |
Gallery (a.) A working drift or level. |
Lower (a.) Compar. of Low, a. |
discharge firing firing off | the act of discharging a gun |
release waiver discharge | a formal written statement of relinquishment |
dismissal dismission discharge firing liberation release sack sacking | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
honorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record |
dishonorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder) |
emptying voidance evacuation | the act of removing the contents of something |
discharge venting | the act of venting |
release outlet vent | activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion, she had no other outlet for her feelings, he gave vent to his anger |
bottom-feeder bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
bottom lurkers | a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
chunnel Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
discharge lamp | a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas |
discharge pipe | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
drift heading gallery | a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine, they dug a drift parallel with the vein |
electric-discharge lamp gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
exit issue outlet way out | an opening that permits escape or release, he blocked the way out, the canyon had only one issue |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
fly gallery fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
gallery | narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building, usually marked by a colonnade |
gallery | a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) |
gallery | a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose, shooting gallery |
gallery art gallery picture gallery | a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited |
gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
lower berth lower | the lower of two berths |
lower deck third deck | the deck below the main deck |
mercantile establishment retail store sales outlet outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
outlet box | (electricity) receptacle consisting of the metal box designed for connections to a wiring system |
press gallery | an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall) |
railroad tunnel | a tunnel through which the railroad track runs |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
second balcony family circle upper balcony peanut gallery | rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats |
shooting gallery shooting range | an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice |
shooting gallery | a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin |
tunnel | a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars), the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection |
vambrace lower cannon | cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm |
veranda verandah gallery | a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) |
wall socket wall plug electric outlet electrical outlet outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
whispering gallery whispering dome | a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points |
wind tunnel | a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft |
lower respiratory tract smear bronchoscopic smear sputum smear | any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the lower respiratory tract, used for cytologic study of cancer and other diseases of the lungs |
carpal tunnel | a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass |
lower jaw mandible mandibula mandibular bone submaxilla lower jawbone jawbone jowl | the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth |
lower respiratory tract | the bronchi and lungs |
c 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 bottom behind derriere fanny ass a d | 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? |
lower criticism | the study of existing manuscripts of the Scriptures in order to determine the original text |
bottom line | the decisive point |