Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - bottom
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n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a the lowest point or part (bottom of the stairs). b the part on which a thing rests (bottom of a saucepan). c the underneath part (scraped the bottom of the car). d the furthest or inmost part (bottom of the garden). 2 colloq. a the buttocks. b the seat of a chair etc. 3 a the less honourable, important, or successful end of a table, a class, etc. (at the bottom of the list of requirements). b a person occupying this place (he's always bottom of the class). 4 the ground under the water of a lake, a river, etc. (swam until he touched the bottom). 5 the basis; the origin (he's at the bottom of it). 6 the essential character; reality. 7 Naut. a the keel or hull of a ship. b a ship, esp. as a cargo-carrier. 8 staying power; endurance. --adj. 1 lowest (bottom button). 2 last (got the bottom score). --v. 1 tr. put a bottom to (a chair, saucepan, etc.). 2 intr. (of a ship) reach or touch the bottom. 3 tr. find the extent or real nature of; work out. 4 tr. (usu. foll. by on) base (an argument etc.) (reasoning bottomed on logic). 5 tr. touch the bottom or lowest point of. Phrases and idioms at bottom basically, essentially. be at the bottom of have caused. bet one's bottom dollar sl. stake all. bottom dog = UNDERDOG. bottom drawer Brit. linen etc. stored by a woman in preparation for her marriage. bottom falls out collapse occurs. bottom gear see GEAR. bottom line colloq. the underlying or ultimate truth; the ultimate, esp. financial, criterion. bottom out reach the lowest level. bottoms up! a call to drain one's glass. bottom up upside-down. get to the bottom of fully investigate and explain. knock the bottom out of prove (a thing) worthless. Derivatives bottommost adj. Etymology: OE botm f. Gmc
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English botme, from Old English botm; akin to Old High German bodam ~, Latin fundus, Greek pythmēn Date: before 12th century 1. the underside of something, a surface (as the seat of a chair) designed to support something resting on it, the posterior end of the trunk ; buttocks, rump, the surface on which a body of water lies, 3. the part of a ship's hull lying below the water, boat, ship, 4. the lowest part or place , the remotest or inmost point, the lowest or last place in point of precedence , the part of a garment worn on the lower part of the body, the last half of an inning of baseball, the bass or baritone instruments of a band, ~land, basis, source , capacity (as of a horse) to endure strain, a foundation color applied to textile fibers before dyeing, a fundamental quark that accounts for the existence and lifetime of upsilon particles and has an electric charge of 1/3 and a measured energy of approximately 5 GeV, ~ed adjective II. verb Date: 1520 transitive verb to furnish with a ~, to provide a foundation for, to bring to the ~, to get to the ~ of, intransitive verb to become based, to reach the ~, to reach a point where a decline is halted or reversed, ~er noun III. adjective Date: 1561 of, relating to, or situated at the ~ , frequenting the ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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