Dictionary Entry
bottom
bottom is a 6-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 30 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
- 2noun
The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
- 3noun
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
- 4noun
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
- 5noun
The fundament; the buttocks.
- 6noun
An abyss.
- 7noun
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
- 8noun
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
- 9noun
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
- 10noun
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- 11adjective
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
- 12transitive verb
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
- 13transitive verb
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
- 14transitive verb
To reach or get to the bottom of.
- 15intransitive verb
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
- 16intransitive verb
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.
- 17noun
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- 18transitive verb
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
- 19noun
a cargo ship
"they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
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- 20noun
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- 21noun
the lower side of anything
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- 22noun
the lowest part of anything
"they started at the bottom of the hill"
- 23noun
a depression forming the ground under a body of water
"he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
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- 24noun
low-lying alluvial land near a river
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- 25noun
the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- 26verb
come to understand
- 27verb
strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- 28verb
provide with a bottom or a seat
"bottom the chairs"
- 29adjective
the lowest rank
"bottom member of the class"
- 30adjective
situated at the bottom or lowest position
"the bottom drawer"
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