Bottom vs Behind - What's the difference?
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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
#* Washington Irving
# (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.
(British, US) a valley, often used in place names.
* Stoddard
(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
(nautical) a cargo vessel, a ship.
* 1881 , :
(nautical) certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
* Shakespeare
* Bancroft
(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
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A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
* Mortimer
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
An abyss.
(obsolete) Power of endurance.
(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
To fall to the lowest point.
* John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships (2004) p. 119:
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
* South
* United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives , (2001) p.59.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
* John Locke
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
To furnish with a bottom.
To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
The lowest or last place or position.
At the back of.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
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After, time- or motion-wise.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
*:About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed - I tethered by my rope.
Responsible for.
In support of.
:
Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
:
*Bible, xi.5:
*:I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
At the back part; in the rear.
* Milton
Toward the back part or rear; backward.
Overdue, in arrears.
Slow; of a watch or clock.
existing afterwards
* Shakespeare
Backward in time or order of succession; past.
* Bible, Phil. ii. 13
Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 68:
(archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
* John Locke
the rear, back-end
butt, the buttocks, bottom
(Australian rules football) A one-point score.
* 1880 . "The Opening Ball" in Comic Australian Verse'', ed. G. Lehmann, 1975. Quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , second edition, 1985, (Sydney University Press), ISBN 0-424-00113-6.
The catcher.
In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
As nouns the difference between bottom and behind
is that bottom is the lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses: while behind is the rear, back-end.As a verb bottom
is to fall to the lowest point.As a adjective bottom
is the lowest or last place or position.As a preposition behind is
at the back of.As a adverb behind is
at the back part; in the rear.bottom
English
Noun
- barrels with the bottom knocked out
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- lack bottom
- Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom ?
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
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- Silkworms finish their bottoms in fifteen days.
- (Dryden)
- a horse of a good bottom
- (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 alsoAntonyms
* (lowest part) top * (BDSM) top * (LGBT) active, pitcher, top, versatileVerb
(en verb)- The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed''' on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index '''bottomed on October 24.
- Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
- those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms .
- 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 bottom a chair
Adjective
(en adjective)- ''Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
behind
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
Synonyms
* in back of * to the rear ofAdverb
(en adverb)- I shall not lag behind .
- to look behind
- My employer is two paychecks behind on paying my salary.
- I'm two weeks behind in my schedule.
- ''My watch is four minutes behind .
- He left behind a legacy of death and sorrow.
- He stayed behind after the war.
- Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind .
- forgetting those things which are behind
- ‘After the performance was over I went behind , and spoke to her.’
- We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind .
Usage notes
For usage in phrasal verbs, see Category: English phrasal verbs with particle "behind": .Noun
(en noun)- A roar from ten thousand throats go up,
For we've kicked another behind.