Meaning

11 senses

  1. (transitive)To furnish (something) with a bottom.

    to bottom a chair

    provide with a bottom or a seat

  2. (transitive)To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).

  3. (transitive)To establish or found (something) on or upon.

  4. (transitive)To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

  5. (intransitive)To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.

    strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

  6. (transitive)To reach the bottom of something.

  7. To fall to the lowest point.

  8. (dated, intransitive)To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.

  9. (intransitive)To take on the receptive role during intercourse.

    I've never bottomed in my life.

  10. (obsolete)To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).

  11. (intransitive, obsolete)To be based or grounded.

    c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.

Examples

449 sentences

  1. I live on the bottom floor.

    Я живу на самому нижньому поверсі. — deniko

    ruЯ живу на самом нижнем этаже. — fjay69

    deIch wohne im Erdgeschoss. — MUIRIEL

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  2. I'll get to the bottom of this.

    Я розберуся. — deniko

    ruЯ найду этому объяснение. — sharptoothed

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  3. It was found at the bottom of the river.

    Це знайшли на дні річки. — deniko

    ruОн был найден на дне реки. — marafon

    deEs wurde am Grunde des Flusses gefunden. — Tamy

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  4. Write your name at the bottom of the paper.

    Напишіть своє прізвище на документі внизу. — deniko

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  5. Read the bottom of the page.

    ruПрочти низ страницы. — Mihailoff

    deLies das Ende der Seite! — Tamy

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Forms

bottoms, bottoming, bottomed, bottomed
Base formbottom · to bottom
3rd person singularbottoms
Present participlebottoming
Past simplebottomed
Past participlebottomed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybottom
he, she, itbottoms

Past simpleLesson

all personsbottomed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bottomed
he, she, ithas bottomed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bottom

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Derivedbottom outrebottom

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the bottom of
  • at the bottom
  • bottom of the
  • the bottom drawer
  • in the bottom
  • bottom drawer
  • the bottom line
  • on the bottom
  • bottom of this
  • the bottom shelf
  • from the bottom
  • bottom line

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
botherA2bothersomeB2bottleB2bottomlessboudoirbougainvilleabough

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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