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)

Noun

(en noun)

A tool for finding whether a surface is , or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

A distance relative to a given reference elevation.

Degree or amount.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot

, title=Money just makes the rich suffer, volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}

(computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.

(gaming) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered. Often, each level occupies different physical space (levels don't require any direct physical relationship to each other, e.g. vertically stacked, horizontally chained, etc).

(gaming) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.

A floor of a multi-storey building.

(British) an area of almost perfectly flat land.