English Dictionary

bottom

/ˈbɒtəm/

verb

(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. / (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water). / (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).

He hit the bottom of the pool.

意味（1）

(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.

to bottom a chair

意味（2）

(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).

We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]

意味（3）

(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).

As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.

意味（4）

(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.

But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.

意味（5）

(transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.

意味（6）

(obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded.

c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman

c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.

意味（7）

(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.

意味（8）

(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.

Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.

意味（9）

To fall to the lowest point.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.

意味（10）

(BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.

意味（11）

(gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

The only time I ever bottomed in my life, my sphincter was pierced.