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Bottom is a synonym of bot.

Bottom is a related term of bot.



As nouns the difference between bot and bottom

is that bot is the larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses while bottom is the lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.

As verbs the difference between bot and bottom

is that bot is to bugger while bottom is to fall to the lowest point.

As an adjective bottom is

the lowest or last place or position.

bot

English

(wikipedia bot)

Etymology 1

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic .

Alternative forms

* bott

Noun

(en noun)
  • The larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
  • * 1946 , National Research Council of Canada, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences , page 76,
    • One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots , suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
  • * 1984 , Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature , page 157,
    • Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot , but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.

    Etymology 2

    From bottom.

    Verb

  • (British, slang) To bugger
  • (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
    • Can I bot a smoke?
    Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
    Usage notes
    Although there are some references that mention that somebody could actually be a "bot" if they practice the art of botting , this noun is not really commonly used.
    Synonyms
    * (To ask for something) bum (UK)

    Etymology 3

    Shortened from robot.

    Alternative forms

    * 'bot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
  • * 1998 , David G. Hartwell (editor), Year's best SF 3 , page 130,
    • I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time.
    She was me.
  • * 2007 , , The Dreaming Void , unnumbered page,
    • The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
  • * 2005 , , Quantico , page 71,
    • As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
  • (computing) A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
  • * 2009 , Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation'', Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López (editors), ''Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference , page 42,
    • The goals of IRC bots' vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC ' bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
  • * 2009 , Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style , page 91,
    • He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots .
    A bot' is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses ' bots to search and index websites.
  • * 2010 , Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies , page 59,
    • Twitter bots' can leverage Twitter?s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog?s RSS feed a Twitter ' bot .
  • (video games) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter.
    • Related terms
    * -bot suffix

    Verb

    (bott)
  • (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
    • Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

    See also

    * Bots

    References

    * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    bottom

    English

    Noun

  • The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses:
  • # (rfc-sense) The part furthest in the direction toward which an unsupported object would fall.
  • #* Macaulay
  • barrels with the bottom knocked out
  • #* Washington Irving
  • No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
  • # (rfc-sense) The part seen, or intended to be seen, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the lowest visible objects, as "footers appear at the bottoms of pages".
  • (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
    • lack bottom
  • (British, US) a valley, often used in place names.
    • Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom ?
  • * Stoddard
    • the bottoms and the high grounds
  • (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
  • (nautical) a cargo vessel, a ship.
  • * 1881 , :
    • We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
  • (nautical) certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
  • * Bancroft
    • Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
  • (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
  • (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
  • (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
  • (physics) A bottom quark.
  • (often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=December 21 , author=Helen Pidd , title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.}}
  • A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
  • * Mortimer
    • Silkworms finish their bottoms in fifteen days.
  • The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
  • An abyss.
    • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) Power of endurance.
    • a horse of a good bottom
  • (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
    • (Johnson)

    Synonyms

    * (lowest part) base * (buttocks) arse (British, Australian, NZ''), ass, fanny (''North American ), backside, bot, bott, botty, bum, buttocks * sit upon, derriere * (BDSM) catcher * (LGBT) catcher, passive, pathic, uke (Japanese fiction) * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * (lowest part) top * (BDSM) top * (LGBT) active, pitcher, top, versatile

    Related terms

    * bot * bottom feeder * bottom fishing * bottom land * bottom line * bottom-most * bottom out * bottoms up * bottom-up * rock bottom * top to bottom * wind up one's bottoms * bottomer * bottom bitch * power bottom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fall to the lowest point.
  • * John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships (2004) p. 119:
    • The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed''' on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index '''bottomed on October 24.
  • To establish firmly; to found or justify on'' or ''upon'' something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest ''on'' or ''upon something which provides support or authority.
  • * Atterbury
    • Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
  • * South
    • those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
  • * United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives , (2001) p.59.
    • Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
  • To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
  • * John Locke
    • Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms .
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As you unwind her love from him, / Lest it should ravel and be good to none, / You must provide to bottom it on me.
  • To furnish with a bottom.
    • to bottom a chair
  • To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
  • To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • The lowest or last place or position.
    • ''Those files should go on the bottom shelf.