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 |
cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
coaxial cable coax coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
fiber optic cable fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy guy cable guy wire guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable jumper lead lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
power line power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
tramway tram aerial tramway cable tramway ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
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? |
cable cablegram overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
bottom line | the decisive point |
bottom round | cut from the round, suitable for pot roast |
Foggy Bottom | United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River |
bottom underside undersurface | the lower side of anything |
bottom | the lowest part of anything, they started at the bottom of the hill |
rock bottom | the absolute bottom |
bed bottom | a depression forming the ground under a body of water, he searched for treasure on the ocean bed |
bottomland bottom | low-lying alluvial land near a river |
bottom quark beauty quark | a quark with a charge of - and a mass about , times that of an electron |
lake bed lake bottom | the bottom of a lake |
ocean floor sea floor ocean bottom seabed sea bottom Davy Jones's locker Davy Jones | the bottom of a sea or ocean |
riverbed river bottom | a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river |
bottom dog | a person of low status |
bottom feeder | an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others |
bottom rot fungus Corticium solani | fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce |
bottom line | the last line in an audit, the line that shows profit or loss |
bottom fermentation | a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid, used in the production of lager |
cable cable length cable's length | a nautical unit of depth |
bottom rot | fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward |
bottom fermenting yeast | brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager |
bottom bottom of the inning | the second half of an inning, while the home team is at bat |
penetrate fathom bottom | come to understand |
cable telegraph wire | send cables, wires, or telegrams |
bottom | strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom |