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bottom

The bottom of something is its lowest part. Lucy took a pen and wrote her name at the bottom of the page. He was wet from top to bottom. it was wider at the top than the bottom. Add wine to the pan and scrape up anything stuck to the pan bottom. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and looked back up. I thought this ship was going to the bottom of the ocean. I dropped it in the water and it quickly sank to the bottom. She came downstairs and sat down on the bottom step. If you are at the bottom, you are at the social lowest position. Chicago still ranks near the bottom among major cities. You don't have to wait until you've hit rock bottom to get help. Your bottom is the round part between your legs and your back. She ran into the tree and sat down hard on her bottom. A bottom is the part of a set of clothing that you put your legs through. Her pink top was perfect, but I didn't like how the bottom fit. The bottom of an inning in baseball is its second half. It's the bottom of the ninth inning and the score is tied.

bottom

If something bottoms (out), it stops going down. When do you think the housing problems are going to bottom out? Home prices have yet to bottom out.

bottom

the lower side of anything the lowest part of anything they started at the bottom of the hill (= butt, fanny) 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? the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat (= bed) a depression forming the ground under a body of water he searched for treasure on the ocean bed situated at the bottom or lowest position the bottom drawer a cargo ship they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms the lowest rank bottom member of the class strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom provide with a bottom or a seat bottom the chairs (= bottomland) low-lying alluvial land near a river (= penetrate) come to understand

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  • What words refer to the bottom of a mountain?

Conjugation bottom conjugation

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bottom · verb

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Simple sentences

The notes are at the bottom of the page.
I love her from the bottom of my heart.
The boat sank to the bottom of the lake.
Read the bottom of the page.
The total at the bottom of the page is carried forward.
There was a little water left in the bottom of the bottle.
There's a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
It was found at the bottom of the river.
Put the book on the bottom shelf.
If you stuff the box too full, the bottom will fall out.
Gum got stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
The footnotes are at the bottom of the page.
Sign at the bottom, please.
I'll bet my bottom dollar he'll succeed.
Read the note at the bottom of the page.

Movie subtitles

The lessons we're learning at the bottom of our oceans and in Yellowstone's acid pits are giving us dramatic insight into how life came to be on our planet.
And this was an amazing discovery because the temperature coming out of the bottom of the ocean was 650 degrees Fahrenheit.
And the bizarre environments didn't stop at the bottom of the ocean.
Europa sits well outside the Goldilocks Zone, but just like at the bottom of Earth's oceans, hydrothermal vents could be the energy source needed for life to emerge.
Unclip top and bottom.
Yes, which also means we have until he gets to the bottom of his latte to get him back on board.
Soon your elven chin will be as smooth as a baby's bottom.
It means me wearing holes in the knees of my nylons trying to teach her how to shuffle on her bottom on the floor.
I feel these are reasonable requests that will little to no effect on your bottom line.
To the bottom to feed the worms!
If you go flying down those steps again, Mr Turner, I won't be standing at the bottom to catch you.
The rescue workers are at the bottom. There's still hope.
And it's because we're all united as miners that you brought me up from the bottom.
He's there at the bottom of the stairs.
Well, since there's no convection current like the sea has, you're not gonna find any oxygen on a lake bottom.
Our underwater uni t has detected something near the bottom!
He'll get to the bottom of this.
We'll soon get to the bottom of this.
There's no double bottom, no secret opening or trap door.
I was going to get a flat bottom, but the boat girl didn't have one.
We put it in the water and the bottom dropped out.
Now we've got to start all over again. right at the bottom.
Well, if. If we became rich and. And we robbed the poor and we gave them to the bandits and we could start at the top and we'd get to the bottom without working hard anymore.
I'll get to the bottom of this.
No bottom at 30.
As for you, may I say from the bottom of my heart. and with the utmost sincerity. how delighted and relieved I am to find myself. in your presence at this moment.
Well, if you'll just sign your name to the bottom of that.
Sunk to the bottom of the briny.
There was powder at the bottom.
Take the top flap and open it, creasing it to the left and right side so you can fold the top right corner to the bottom corner.
I don't like them from the bottom, brother.
I guess somebody must have been dealing from the bottom.
I've been trying for years to get to the bottom of these things. To separate what you call fact from fiction.
Then down at the bottom he finishes off his column with a cheap laugh at your expense.
I might have known that you were at the bottom of this.
I'm going to get to the bottom of this.
Well, I made a funny discovery. In spite of the fact somebody's up from the bottom he can still be a heel.
Why, inside the whale at the bottom of the sea.
Bottom of the sea?
Well, tell Mrs. Danvers to get to the bottom of it somehow.
Well. The diver who went down to inspect the bottom of the ship came across the hull of another boat.

News and current affairs

The renewal process could affect the top and bottom layers, and inevitably it is necessary to recondition the institutional links between them.
Bottom trawlers drag heavy nets over the ocean bottom, destroying magnificent, unexplored, and endangered marine species in the process.
Bottom trawling should simply be outlawed; it would be simple and inexpensive to compensate the fishing industry during a transition to other activities.
Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from top to bottom.
Yet it is on this bottom board that we find most of the greatest challenges we face today.
Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top-line revenues takes a toll on bottom-line margins and profitability.
The regime is under growing pressure from those at the bottom of North Korean society, and recognizes its own inability to handle the situation.
At bottom, the problem is one of legitimacy.
The bottom line is that we can't predict where the threat will emerge, so we need a distributed, intelligent detection system.
So Polish influence in Union councils is at rock bottom.
The bottom chessboard is the realm of transnational relations that cross borders outside of government control.
On this bottom board, power is widely dispersed, and it makes no sense to speak of unipolarity, multipolarity, or hegemony.
Rather than harping endlessly on China's currency peg, which is only a small part of the problem, the US has asked for help where it counts: on the bottom line.
To revive growth, others must be encouraged to spend - governments that can still borrow should run larger deficits, and rock-bottom interest rates should discourage thrifty households from saving.
At bottom, they are protesting against the mismanagement of their countries' wealth and resources - with implications that affect the security and affordability of the entire world's energy supplies.
The bottom chessboard is the realm of transnational relations that cross borders beyond government control.
Nobel Prize winners Robert Solow and Paul Krugman famously once questioned whether the proliferation of computers and technology would lead to bottom-line growth.
Italy's new government will have to display leadership and vision to guide the economy toward stable growth, avert a race to the bottom, and stem growing social tension.
A similar analysis of many other advanced economies suggests that, as in the US, the bottom is quite close but it has not yet been reached.
Western observers could accept the exiles' assurances that their proposals on autonomy are negotiable and not bottom-line demands, rather than damning them before talks start.

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