| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To tail or end.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To foot or butt. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To floor, base, background or ground.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Present participle conjugation of the verb bottom.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (bottomly) | 1. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective bottom.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bottom) | 1. Provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs".[Wordnet]. 2. Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom.[Wordnet]. 3. Come to understand.[Wordnet]. 4. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.[Websters]. 5. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.[Websters]. 6. To reach or get to the bottom of.[Websters]. 7. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.[Websters]. 8. 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.[Websters]. 9. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: bottoming, bottomed, bottoms, bottomer, bottomers, bottomingly and bottomedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BOTTOMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BOTTOMING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Mining | The downward pinching-out or termination of an orebody, either structurally or by economic grade. See also: bottom. (references) | ||
| Post & Telecom | The operation of an electronic device in the conducting state in such a way that the magnitude of the lowest instantaneous voltage of the output electrode is determined by the characteristics of the device and not by the input voltage. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: Hard lumps of stone, brick, furnace slag, old concrete, etc. suitable for filling soft ground in a foundation or under a road. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A) placing stones, etc. to form a road base or the foot of an embankment or drain; b) paving a road surface with dressed stones. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: bottom
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| American Bottom | The American Bottom is a flood plain of the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois, extending from Alton, Illinois, to the Kaskaskia River. It is also sometimes referred to in the plural as "American Bottoms". It is about 175 square miles in area, and is mostly protected from flooding by a levee and drainage canal system. The area across the river from Saint Louis, Missouri is industrial and urban, but many swamps and the major Horseshoe Lake are reminders of the riparian nature of the area. The southern portion of American Bottom is primarily agricultural, mainly planted with corn, wheat, and soybean. American Bottom is in the Mississippi Flyway, used by migrating birds, and has the greatest concentration of bird species in Illinois. The flood plain is bounded on the east by a nearly continuous, 200-300 foot high, 80 mile long bluff of limestone and dolomite, above which begins the great prairie that covers most of the state. This Mississippi River bounds the Bottom on its west; the river abuts the bluffline on the Missouri side. Portions of St. Clare, Madison, Monroe, and Randolph Counties are in American Bottom. Its maximum width is about 9 miles, to the north, and is about 2-3 miles in width throughout most of its southern extent. (references) | ||
| At bottom | In reality. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Black Bottom | Black Bottom (also known as Paradise Valley) was a predominately African-American neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan where Black migrants from the South were forced to live because of deed restrictions that made it illegal them to own or rent property in most of the city. (references) | ||
| Black Bottom (dance) | Black Bottom is also the name of a popular dance that was popularized in the 1920s in New York City during the Flapper era. (references) | ||
| Black Bottom (Philadelphia) | Black Bottom is a historic, predominantly African-American neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was situated in West Philadelphia generally north and east of 40th and Market Streets, on the northern edge of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, but was razed for urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. (references) | ||
| Bottom (sex) | In the context of human sexual behavior, especially anal sex among gay men, a bottom is a receptive partner (i.e. a partner who is penetrated), or a person who prefers the receptive role. The counterpart is a top. (references) | ||
| Bottom (technical analysis) | A bottom is an event in technical analysis, where prices reach a low, then a lower low, and then a higher low. (references) | ||
| Bottom bracket | The bottom bracket on a bicycle contains an axle to which the crankset is attached and the bearings that allow the axle and cranks to rotate. (The chainrings and pedals are attached to the cranks.) The bottom bracket fits inside the bottom bracket shell, which is part of the bicycle frame. (references) | ||
| Bottom crawler | A bottom crawler is an underwater exploration and recovery vehicle. It is designed to sink to the bottom of a body of water, where it moves about using traction against the bottom with wheels or treads. It is usually tethered to a surface ship by cables providing power, control, video, and lifting capabilities but this is not required. (references) | ||
| Bottom dealing | Bottom dealing is a form of cheating in poker and other card games. It consists of placing high cards on the bottom of the deck while shuffling and dealing those cards to yourself or you teammates. Bottom dealing is both easier to commit and easier to detect than second dealing. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: BOTTOMING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bottoming cycle | Energy | A cogeneration system in which steam is used first for process heat and then for electric power production. (references) | |
| Bottoming cycle | Physics | A means to increase the thermal efficiency of a steam electric generating system by converting some waste heat from the condenser into electricity rather than discharging all of it into the environment. (references) | |
| Finish bottoming | Metallurgy | The production of the final contour of a component by forming it between punch and die, usually at substantial pressure, with a view to sharpening corner radii, eliminating puckers etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Structural bottoming | Mining | See: bottoming. (references) | |
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