bottom
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bottom/ˈbɒtəm/
▶noun
- 1 the lowest point or part of something.
■ the furthest part or point of something.
■ (also bottoms) the lower half of a two-piece garment.
- 2 chiefly Brit. a person's buttocks.
- 3 archaic stamina or strength of character.
- 4 Physics one of six flavours of quark.
■ in the furthest position away in a downhill direction.
▶verb- 1 (of a ship) touch the bottom of the sea.
- 2 (bottom out) (of a situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving.
– phrases
at bottom fundamentally.
be at the bottom of be the fundamental cause or origin of.
the bottom falls (or drops) out something suddenly fails or collapses.
bottoms up! informal said as a toast before drinking.
get to the bottom of find an explanation for (a mystery).
you (can) bet your bottom dollar informal a particular thing is bound to happen.
at bottom fundamentally.
be at the bottom of be the fundamental cause or origin of.
the bottom falls (or drops) out something suddenly fails or collapses.
bottoms up! informal said as a toast before drinking.
get to the bottom of find an explanation for (a mystery).
you (can) bet your bottom dollar informal a particular thing is bound to happen.
– derivatives
-bottomed adjective,
bottomless adjective,
bottommost adjective.
-bottomed adjective,
bottomless adjective,
bottommost adjective.
– origin OE botm, of Gmc origin.
'bottom' also found in these Oxford entries:
aground
- anchor
- angel shark
- baulk
- bazoo
- bed
- bedding
- behind
- bend
- bend sinister
- benthos
- bilge
- black bottom
- bomb
- booty
- bottom drawer
- bottom feeder
- bottom fermentation
- bottom line
- bottomry
- bottom-up
- botty
- box canyon
- bream
- brim
- bring
- burbot
- butt
- buttock
- button-through
- cafetière
- catfish
- ceiling
- chine
- copper-bottomed
- crisper
- cul-de-sac
- Davy Jones's locker
- dedendum
- depth
- dogfish
- downhill
- downmost
- drag
- drift net
- electric ray
- flatboat
- flavour
- floor
