bottom : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb in reality
  in spite of appearance; inside; deep down; at heart.
  
  • she is very kind at heart

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• at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper.

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• adjective satellite (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom
  bellbottom; bell-bottom.
  
  • bell-bottomed trousers

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• adjective satellite (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom
  bellbottom; bell-bottom.
  
  • bell-bottomed trousers

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• noun trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s
  bellbottom trousers; bellbottom pants.
  

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• noun a person of low status
  

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• noun an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others
  

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• noun a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of lager
  

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• noun brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager
  

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• noun fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)
  groundfish.
  

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• a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. -

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• grass growing on bottom lands.

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• . See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

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• noun the last line in an audit; the line that shows profit or loss
  
• noun the decisive point
  

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• noun a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water
  

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• noun the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
  bottom.
  

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• verb reach the low point
  
  • Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while
• verb hit the ground
  
  • the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road

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• noun a quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron
  beauty quark.
  

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• noun fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward
  

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• noun fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce
  Corticium solani.
  

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• noun cut from the round; suitable for pot roast
  

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• noun a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
  bottom-dweller.
  

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• adjective of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water
  

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• noun a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain
  
• noun a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
  bottom-dweller.
  

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• adjective of or relating to fish and marine life that feed on the bottom of a body of water
  

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• adjective of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level
  
  • bottom-up parser
  • a bottom-up model of the reading process

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• verb provide with a copper bottom
  copper-bottom.
  
  • copper-bottom a frying pan

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• verb provide with a copper bottom
  copper-bottom.
  
  • copper-bottom a frying pan
• adjective satellite having a bottom of copper or sheathed with copper
  
  • copper-bottomed pots
  • a copper-bottomed ship

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Cop"per-bot`tomed adjective

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1. Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

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• noun a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom)
  

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• adjective satellite having a flat bottom
  flat-bottom.
  
  • a flat-bottomed boat

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• adjective satellite having a flat bottom
  flat-bottom.
  
  • a flat-bottomed boat

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Flat"-bot`tomed adjective

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1. Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.

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• noun United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River
  

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• a kind of wig full and large at the bottom.
• a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

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Full"-bot"tomed adjective

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1. Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.
2. (Naut.) Of great capacity below the water line.

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• noun the bottom of a lake
  lake bed.
  

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• noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
  Davy Jones; sea floor; ocean bottom; ocean floor; Davy Jones's locker; seabed.
  

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• noun a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river
  riverbed.
  

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• noun the absolute bottom
  

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• adjective satellite well below normal (especially in price)
  reduced.
  

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• adjective satellite having a rounded bottom
  round-bottom.
  
  • round-bottom flasks

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• noun a spherical flask with a narrow neck
  

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• adjective satellite having a rounded bottom
  round-bottom.
  
  • round-bottom flasks

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• a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. Western U.S. bartlett.

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• noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
  Davy Jones; sea floor; ocean bottom; ocean floor; Davy Jones's locker; seabed.
  

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• noun largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
  Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale.
  

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Sul`phur-bot"tom noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.

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• to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. Usually in an opprobrious sense. J. H. Newman.

  He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison.

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• to sink; esp. to be wrecked.

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• to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.

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Tops"-and-bot`toms noun plural

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1. Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants.

   'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

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