Bottom vs Down - 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.
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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.
Hill, rolling grassland
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* Ray
* Tennyson
(usually plural) Field, especially for racing.
(UK, mostly, in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
* Sandys
A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
* Cook (First Voyage)
(lb) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
*
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South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
(lb) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
Into a state of non-operation.
(lb) The direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
(lb) Get down.
Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
* (and other bibliograpic details) (Daniel Webster)
From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
From less to greater detail.
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From the higher end to the lower of.
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From one end to another of.
Depressed, feeling low.
On a lower level than before.
Having a lower score than an opponent.
(baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
(colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to
(not comparable, US, slang) Relaxed about, accepting of.
(not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
Finished]] (of a task); defeated or [[deal with, dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
(not comparable, military, police, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
(not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered.
* 2013 , P.J. Hoover, Solstice , (ISBN 0765334690), page 355:
(obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Madame D'Arblay
(pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
(American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground.
To write off; to make fun of.
(obsolete) To go down; to descend.
a negative aspect; a downer.
(dated) A grudge ((on) someone).
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 10:
An act of swallowing an entire drink in one.
(American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down'', or ''is downed .
(crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
An downstairs room of a two story house.
down payment
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
(botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
* Dryden
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
* Tennyson
* Southern
In obsolete terms the difference between bottom and down
is that bottom is dregs or grounds; lees; sediment while down is downright; absolute; positive.In transitive terms the difference between bottom and down
is that bottom is to furnish with a bottom while down is to cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.As nouns the difference between bottom and down
is that bottom is the lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses while down is hill, rolling grassland.As verbs the difference between bottom and down
is that bottom is to fall to the lowest point while down is to drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.As adjectives the difference between bottom and down
is that bottom is the lowest or last place or position while down is depressed, feeling low.As an adverb down is
from a higher position to a lower one; downwards.As a preposition down is
from the higher end to the lower of.As a proper noun Down is
one of the counties of Northern Ireland.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.
down
English
(wikipedia down)Etymology 1
(etyl) doun, from (etyl) , from British Celtic dunon'' 'hill; hillfort' (compare Welsh ''din'' 'hill', Irish ''dún'' 'hill, fort'), from (etyl) *''dheue'' or ''dhwene . More at (town); akin to (dune).Noun
- Churchill Downs', Upson '''Downs (from ''Auntie Mame , by Patrick Dennis).
- And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
- My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down
- Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex.
- She went by dale, and she went by down .
- Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs .
- On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs , and went ashore at Deal.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adverb
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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- Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
- (Arbuthnot)
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Usage notes
* Down' can be used with verbs in ways that change the meaning of the verb in ways not entirely predictable from the meanings of the ' down and the verb, though related to them. See .Antonyms
* (From a higher position to a lower one) up * (At a lower place) up * up * (Into a state of non-operation) up * upPreposition
(English prepositions)Antonyms
* (From the higher end to the lower) upDerived terms
* (from the higher end to the lower) sell down the riverAdjective
(en adjective)- So, things got you down ? / Is Rodney Dangerfield giving you no respect? / Well, bunky, cheer up!
- The stock market is down .
- Prices are down .
- They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
- He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
- At 5-1 down , she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
- Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
- Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
- Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal?
- As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone.
- ''The system is down .
- Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
- Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
- We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
- There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
- We have a chopper down near the river .
- It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
- I stay with Chloe the longest. When she's not hanging out at the beach parties, she lives in a Japanese garden complete with an arched bridge spanning a pond filled with koi of varying sizes and shapes. Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand. Chloe has this whole new Japanese thing down .
- a down denial
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Antonyms
* (Depressed) up * (On a lower level) up * (Having a lower score) up * (Inoperable) upVerb
(en verb)- He downed an ale and ordered another.
- The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
- To down proud hearts.
- I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house.
- He downed two balls on the break.
- He downed it at the seven-yard line.
- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (drink) See alsoNoun
(en noun)- I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
- She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word.
- I bet after the third down , the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
- I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs .
- She lives in a two-up two-down .
Derived terms
* down and out * down at heel * down for the count * down in the dumps * down in the mouth * down memory lane * down on one's luck * down payment * down pat * downed (US and Canadian football) * downer * down to the short strokes * first down (US and Canadian football) * fourth down (US football) * second down (US and Canadian football) * third down (US and Canadian football) * top-down * upside downReferences
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
- The first down begins to shade his face.
- When in the down I sink my head, / Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.
- Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares!