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. |
Edge (v. t.) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument |
Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border |
Edge (v. t.) Sharpness |
Edge (v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division |
Edge (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon |
Edge (v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. |
Edge (v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border |
Edge (v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively |
Edge (v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise |
Edge (v. i.) To move sideways |
Edge (v. i.) To sail close to the wind. |
Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
Gilt-edge (a.) Alt. of Gilt-edged |
Knife-edge (n.) A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. |
Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly |
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 |
deckle edge deckle | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
edge | a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object, he rounded the edges of the box |
edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface, a place farthest away from the center of something, the edge of the leaf is wavy, she sat on the edge of the bed, the water's edge |
edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
fore edge foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, the part opposite the spine |
knife edge cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
leading edge | forward edge of an airfoil |
razor edge | an edge that is as sharp as the cutting side of a razor |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
trailing edge | the rear edge of an airfoil |
knife-edge | a narrow boundary, he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity |
edge | a slight competitive advantage, he had an edge on the competition |
edge sharpness | the attribute of urgency in tone of voice, his voice had an edge to it |
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? |
vanguard forefront cutting edge | the position of greatest importance or advancement, the leading position in any movement or field, the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England, the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy |
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 |
edge border | the boundary of a surface |
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 |
boundary edge bound | a line determining the limits of an area |
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 |
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 |
edge | provide with an edge, edge a blade |
border adjoin edge abut march butt butt against butt on | lie adjacent to another or share a boundary, Canada adjoins the U.S., England marches with Scotland |
bottom out | reach the low point, Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while |