Word Finder - bottom

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The lowest part of anything.

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Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

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Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

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lack bottom

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Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

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Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?

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The buttocks or anus.

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A cargo vessel, a ship.

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Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

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The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

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(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

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A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.

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A bottom quark.

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The lowest part of a container.

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A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

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The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

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An abyss.

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Power of endurance.

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a horse of a good bottom

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Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

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(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

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To furnish (something) with a bottom.

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to bottom a chair

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

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To establish or found (something) on or upon.

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

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To be based or grounded.

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

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To reach the bottom of something.

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To fall to the lowest point.

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To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex.

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I've never bottomed in my life.

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The lowest or last place or position.

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Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

At the bottom of the hill a sharp turn waited.

The path to the bottom was unguarded.

Alex asked as they reached the bottom step.

There is a solid bottom everywhere.

They looked down, and at the bottom they saw some lambs huddled together among the rocks.

He crossed the room and snatched the gym bag at the bottom of her wardrobe.

The bottom of the lake glowed with souls.

The car spun around at the bottom of the hill, spraying gravel in a wild circle.

The bottom was solid rock covered with fine sand.

Jake obeyed and darted to the bottom of the stairs, pacing.

Most of them rested in piles at the bottom of the lake while some floated in the water.

This was somewhat like cutting a hole in the bottom of a ship to let the water out.

But he also knew (or rather felt at the bottom of his heart) that by resigning himself now to the force of circumstances and to those who were guiding him, he was not only doing nothing wrong, but was doing something very important--more important than anything he had ever done in his life.

The braids not only held it out of her eyes, but thinned the bottom part down enough that it would lay loose across her shoulders and down her back without frizzing.

It sounds like the Lucky Pup Mine is at the bottom of the whole business.

Landon was in the bottom floor of the fortress, waiting with a familiar face in the study.

Destiny giggled, revealing top and bottom teeth in matching pairs.

The bottom of the lake was lined with green gems, the source of the strange light.

In Sasha's zoo, he was at the bottom of the food chain of the otherworldly collection of creatures.

Rhyn snatched it and read it before tearing off the strip at the bottom with the hotel's address.

We.ll have to scrub this place from top to bottom to make sure no one else pops up somewhere they shouldn.t be.

She trotted to the bottom and waved her band before the access pad, waiting as the stone door opened.

It must be sixty feet to the bottom.

The favourite food of the American beaver is the water-lily (Nuphar luteum), which bears a resemblance to a cabbage-stalk, and grows at the bottom of lakes and rivers.

And if history is an accurate guide, that wealth will be partially redistributed to the poor—even the poorest of the poor, the bottom billion.

Several pretty large logs may still be seen lying on the bottom, where, owing to the undulation of the surface, they look like huge water snakes in motion.

After adding a bottom border, she changed to the red icing.

She stood at the bottom of the hill leading towards the command center.

The removal of the coal broken at the working face to the pit bottom may in small mines be effected by hand labour, but more Under.

In addition to this it is necessary to have an extra system of fixed guides at the surface and at the bottom, where it is necessary to keep the cage steady during the operations of loading and landing, there being a much greater amount of oscillation during the passage of the cage than with fixed guides.

In Koepe's method the drum is replaced by a disk with a grooved rim for the rope, which passes from the top of one cage over the guide pulley, round the disk, and back over the second guide to the second cage, and a tail rope, passing round a pulley at the bottom of the shaft, connects the bottoms of the cages, so that the dead weight of cage, tubs and rope is completely counterbalanced at all positions of the cages, and the work of the engine is confined to the useful weight of coal raised.

The basin is comparatively narrow, and the Tagus, like the other rivers of the Iberian tableland, generally flows in a rather confined valley, often at the bottom of a rocky gorge below the general level of the adjacent country.

It is plain that all those who think thus of the soul make it at bottom corporeal.

The chief cultivation is rice, with about two acres of dry or hill rice to one of wet bottom.

In the so-called "Buchner funnel," the filtering vessel is cylindrical, and the paper receives support by being laid upon its flat perforated bottom.

C. Gooch, which has come into common use in quantitative analysis where the solid matter has to be submitted to heating or ignition, consists of a crucible having a perforated bottom.

By means of a piece of stretched rubber tubing, this crucible is supported in the mouth of an ordinary funnel which is connected with an exhausting apparatus; and water holding in suspension fine scrapings of asbestos, purified by boiling with strong hydrochloric acid and washing with water, is run through it, so that the perforated bottom is covered with a layer of felted asbestos.

It stops over one of three orifices in the bottom plate of the balance.

Below them was a vast space, at the bottom of which was a black sea with rolling billows, through which little tongues of flame constantly shot up.

At first the piglet stuck in the neck of the vase and I thought I should get him, after all, but he wriggled himself through and fell down into the deep bottom part--and I suppose he's there yet.

Something was moving among the rocks at the bottom of the chasm.

Ignorance seems to be at the bottom of all these contradictions.

This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun reflected from the bottom, and also transmitted through the earth, melts first and forms a narrow canal about the still frozen middle.

The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.

The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you into water over your head; and were it not for its remarkable transparency, that would be the last to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the opposite side.

These wash back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on the shore.

As I was desirous to recover the long lost bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, early in '46, with compass and chain and sounding line.

From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came the report of musketry.

Meeting a comrade at the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov had drunk three bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostov, who grew more and more impatient the nearer they got to Moscow.

From the back porch came the sound of feet descending the steps, the bottom step upon which snow had fallen gave a ringing creak and he heard the voice of an old maidservant saying, Straight, straight, along the path, Miss.