Bottom vs Deeper - What's the difference?
bottom | deeper | Synonyms |
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.
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# (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.
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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.
(deep)
Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
#Extending far down from the top or surface; having its bottom far down.
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#*:Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
#Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.
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#In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
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#Thick.
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#*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
#A long way inside; situated far in or back.
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## Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
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##(label) Relatively farther downfield.
Complex, involved.
#Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
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#To a significant, not superficial, extent.
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#*:While Britain’s recession has been deep and unforgiving, in London it has been relatively shallow.
#Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
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#*:Why it was that the ancients had no landscape painting, is a question deep almost as the mystery of life, and harder of solution than all the problems of jurisprudence combined.
#Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
#*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
#*:deep clerks
Low in pitch.
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(lb) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken ).
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Immersed, submerged (in).
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Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
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*:The ways in that vale were very deep .
Deeply.
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The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
(US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
The sea, the ocean.
(cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.
Bottom is a synonym of deeper.
As adjectives the difference between bottom and deeper
is that bottom is the lowest or last place or position while deeper is (deep).As a noun bottom
is the lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses:.As a verb bottom
is to fall to the lowest point.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.
deeper
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*deep
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Synonyms
* * (having great meaning) heavy, meaningful, profound * (in extent in a direction away from the observer) * (thick in a vertical direction) thick * (voluminous) great, large, voluminous * (low in pitch) low, low-pitched * bright, rich, vividAntonyms
* shallow * (having great meaning) frivolous, light, shallow, superficial * (in extent in a direction away from the observer) shallow * (thick in a vertical direction) shallow, thin * (voluminous) shallow, small * (low in pitch) high, high-pitched, piping * light, pale, desaturated, washed-outSee also
* tall * wide * high * thickAdverb
(en adverb)- Deep -versed in books, and shallow in himself.
- Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring.
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
Noun
- creatures of the deep
- Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep .