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. |
Compression (n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. |
Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly |
Swell (v. i.) To grow larger |
Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition |
Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows |
Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated |
Swell (v. i.) To be inflated |
Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant |
Swell (v. i.) To protuberate |
Swell (v. i.) To be elated |
Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view |
Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount |
Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner |
Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of |
Swell (v. t.) To aggravate |
Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance |
Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note. |
Swell (n.) The act of swelling. |
Swell (n.) Gradual increase. |
Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk |
Swell (n.) Increase in height |
Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound. |
Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. |
Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land |
Swell (n.) A wave, or billow |
Swell (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound |
Swell (n.) A showy, dashing person |
Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance |
compression compressing | applying pressure |
compression | encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required |
image compression | the compression of graphics for storage or transmission |
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 |
compression bandage tourniquet | bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
swell | a crescendo followed by a decrescendo |
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? |
bottom line | the decisive point |
compression condensation contraction | the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together, the contraction of a gas on cooling |
ground swell heavy swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean |
swell crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
ground swell | an obvious change of public opinion or political sentiment that occurs without leadership or overt expression, there was a ground swell of antiwar sentiment |
compaction compression concretion densification | an increase in the density of something |
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 |
swell | a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) |
bottom dog | a person of low status |
bottom feeder | an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others |
dandy dude fop gallant sheik beau swell fashion plate clotheshorse | a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance |
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 |
nerve compression | harmful pressure on a nerve (especially in nerves that pass over rigid prominences), causes nerve damage and muscle weakness |
bottom rot | fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward |
compression fracture | fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae) |
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 |
swell swell up intumesce tumefy tumesce | expand abnormally, The bellies of the starving children are swelling |
swell | cause to become swollen, The water swells the wood |
swell | increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity, The music swelled to a crescendo |
penetrate fathom bottom | come to understand |
bottom | strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom |
bottom out | hit the ground, the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road |
well swell | come up, as of a liquid, Tears well in her eyes, the currents well up |