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What does bottom mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bottom? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The lowest part of anything.
  2. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
  3. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
  4. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
  5. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
  6. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
  7. (physics) A bottom quark.
  8. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
  9. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
  10. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
  11. An abyss.
  12. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
  13. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Verb
  1. To fall to the lowest point.
  2. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.
  3. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
  4. (intransitive) 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.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
  6. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
  7. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
Adjective
  1. The lowest or last place or position.
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