flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
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 |
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 |
bloodstream blood stream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system |
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? |
stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience |
stream of consciousness | a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy |
bottom line | the decisive point |
current stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
torrent violent stream | a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid), the houses were swept away in the torrent |
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 |
stream flow current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
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 |
stream watercourse | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
tidal river tidewater river tidal stream tidewater stream | a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream |
bottom dog | a person of low status |
bottom feeder | an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others |
angular velocity | (physics) the rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body, usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute |
jet stream | a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere, has important effects of the formation of weather fronts |
Gulf stream | a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean |
meteor shower meteor stream | a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere |
stream orchid chatterbox giant helleborine Epipactis gigantea | orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf |
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 |
stream flow | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously, a stream of people emptied from the terminal, the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors |
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 |
speed velocity | distance travelled per unit time |
escape velocity | the minimum velocity needed to escape a gravitational field |
muzzle velocity | the velocity of a projectile as it leaves the muzzle of a gun |
peculiar velocity | velocity with respect to the local standard of rest |
radial velocity | velocity along the line of sight toward or away from the observer |
terminal velocity | the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity |