English Dictionary

bottom

/ˈbɒtəm/

noun

A garment worn to cover the body below the torso. / Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water. / The far end of somewhere.

The cat is sleeping at the bottom of the stairs.

意味（1）

A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.

Coordinate term: top

意味（2）

Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.

a soda and a bottom of brandy

意味（3）

The far end of somewhere.

There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.

意味（4）

(uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

lack bottom

意味（5）

(dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.

This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.

意味（6）

The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.

Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.

意味（7）

(now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?

意味（8）

(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

意味（9）

The buttocks or anus.

意味（10）

(often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.

In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.

意味（11）

The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

意味（12）

An abyss.

In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode

In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God

意味（13）

(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.

We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; …

意味（14）

(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

意味（15）

(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

意味（16）

(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

意味（17）

(gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.

James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.

意味（18）

(particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.

意味（19）

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.

意味（20）

(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.