Base vs. Bottom

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Difference Between Base and Bottom

Basenoun

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

Bottomnoun

The lowest part of anything.

Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

Basenoun

A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

Bottomnoun

Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

lack bottom

Basenoun

The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

Bottomnoun

A valley, often used in place names.

Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
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Basenoun

A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

Bottomnoun

The buttocks or anus.

Basenoun

The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

Bottomnoun

(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.

Basenoun

A basic but essential component or ingredient.

Bottomnoun

(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

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Basenoun

A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

Bottomnoun

(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

Basenoun

(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

Bottomnoun

(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Basenoun

(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

Bottomnoun

A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.

Basenoun

Important areas in games and sports.

Bottomnoun

(physics) A bottom quark.

Basenoun

A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.

Bottomnoun

The lowest part of a container.

Basenoun

(baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.

Bottomnoun

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

Basenoun

(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

Bottomnoun

The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

Basenoun

A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

Bottomnoun

An abyss.

Basenoun

(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

Bottomnoun

(obsolete) Power of endurance.

a horse of a good bottom

Basenoun

(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

Bottomnoun

(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Basenoun

(geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

Bottomnoun

(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

Basenoun

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

Bottomverb

To fall to the lowest point.

Basenoun

(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

Bottomverb

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.

Basenoun

(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.

Basenoun

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Bottomverb

(intransitive) 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.

Basenoun

(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

Bottomverb

To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

Basenoun

(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

Bottomverb

(transitive) To furnish with a bottom.

to bottom a chair

Basenoun

In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

Basenoun

(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

I've never bottomed in my life.

Basenoun

(music) lang=en

Bottomadjective

The lowest or last place or position.

Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

Basenoun

The smallest kind of cannon.

Bottomnoun

the lower side of anything

Basenoun

(archaic) The housing of a horse.

Bottomnoun

the lowest part of anything;

they started at the bottom of the hill

Basenoun

A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

Bottomnoun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

he deserves a good kick in the buttare you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Basenoun

(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

Bottomnoun

the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

Basenoun

(obsolete) An apron.

Bottomnoun

a depression forming the ground under a body of water;

he searched for treasure on the ocean bed

Basenoun

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

Bottomnoun

low-lying alluvial land near a river

Basenoun

The game of prisoners' bars.

Bottomnoun

a cargo ship;

they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms

Baseverb

(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

Bottomverb

provide with a bottom or a seat;

bottom the chairs

Baseverb

(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).

Bottomverb

strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

Baseverb

To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

Bottomverb

come to understand

Baseadjective

(obsolete) Low in height; short.

Bottomadjective

situated at the bottom or lowest position;

the bottom drawerthe top shelf

Baseadjective

Low in place or position.

Bottomadjective

at the bottom; lowest or last;

the bottom price

Baseadjective

(obsolete) Of low value or degree.

Bottomadjective

the lowest rank;

bottom member of the class

Baseadjective

(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

Baseadjective

Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

Baseadjective

Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.

Baseadjective

Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.

Baseadjective

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.

base coinbase bullion

Baseadjective

(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.

Baseadjective

Not classical or correct.

base Latin

Baseadjective

obsolete form of bass

the base tone of a violin

Baseadjective

(legal) Not held by honourable service.

A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.

Basenoun

any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water;

bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia

Basenoun

installation from which a military force initiates operations;

the attack wiped out our forward bases

Basenoun

lowest support of a structure;

it was built on a base of solid rockhe stood at the foot of the tower

Basenoun

place that runner must touch before scoring;

he scrambled to get back to the bag

Basenoun

(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place;

10 is the radix of the decimal system

Basenoun

the bottom or lowest part;

the base of the mountain

Basenoun

(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment;

the base of the skull

Basenoun

a lower limit;

the government established a wage floor

Basenoun

the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture

Basenoun

a support or foundation;

the base of the lamp

Basenoun

the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed;

the base of the triangle

Basenoun

the most important or necessary part of something;

the basis of this drink is orange juice

Basenoun

the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

Basenoun

an intensely anti-western terrorist network that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist group; has cells in more than 50 countries

Basenoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

thematic vowels are part of the stem

Basenoun

the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area;

the industrial base of Japan

Basenoun

the principal ingredient of a mixture;

glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointmentshe told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of greeneverything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base

Basenoun

a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;

a tub should sit on its own base

Basenoun

(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

Baseverb

use as a basis for; found on;

base a claim on some observation

Baseverb

use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Baseverb

assign to a station

Baseadjective

serving as or forming a base;

the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats

Baseadjective

(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;

base coins of aluminuma base metal

Baseadjective

of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

baseborn wretches with dirty facesof humble (or lowly) birth

Baseadjective

not adhering to ethical or moral principles;

base and unpatriotic motivesa base, degrading way of lifecheating is dishonorablethey considered colonialism immoralunethical practices in handling public funds

Baseadjective

having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;

that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabbletaking a mean advantagechok'd with ambition of the meaner sortsomething essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics

Baseadjective

illegitimate

Baseadjective

debased; not genuine;

an attempt to eliminate the base coinage