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Bottom and Button Definitions

Bottom

The deepest or lowest part
The bottom of a well.
The bottom of the page.

Button

A generally disk-shaped fastener used to join two parts of a garment by fitting through a buttonhole or loop.

Bottom

The part closest to a reference point
Was positioned at the bottom of the key for a rebound.

Button

Such an object used for decoration.

Bottom

The underside
Scraped the bottom of the car on a rock.

Button

A push-button switch.
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Bottom

The supporting part; the base.

Button

The blunt tip of a fencing foil.

Bottom

The far end or part
At the bottom of the bed.

Button

A fused metal or glass globule.

Bottom

The last place, as on a list.

Button

In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.
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Bottom

The lowest or least favorable position
Started at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.

Button

In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.

Bottom

The basic underlying quality; the source
Let's get to the bottom of the problem.

Button

An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

Bottom

The solid surface under a body of water.

Button

The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.
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Bottom

Often bottoms Low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river. Also called bottomland.

Button

A usually round flat badge that bears a design or printed information and is typically pinned to a garment
A campaign button.

Bottom

(Nautical) The part of a ship's hull below the water line.

Button

(Informal) The end of the chin, regarded as the point of impact for a punch.

Bottom

A ship; a boat
"English merchants did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" (G.M. Trevelyan).

Button

In card games, especially poker, a plastic disk or similar marker placed in front of the person who is designated as dealer for a particular hand. At the start of each hand, the first card is dealt to the left of the button and the dealing of cards continues clockwise around the table.

Bottom

Often bottoms The trousers or short pants of pajamas.

Button

The person who is in possession of this button.

Bottom

(Informal) The buttocks.

Button

The position on the gaming table where this button is located.

Bottom

The seat of a chair.

Button

To fasten with buttons
Buttoned his shirt.
Buttoned up her raincoat.

Bottom

(Baseball) The second or last half of an inning.

Button

To decorate or furnish with buttons.

Bottom

Staying power; stamina. Used of a horse.

Button

(Informal) To close (the lips or mouth)
Button your lip.

Bottom

(Slang) One who is penetrated by another person or is the submissive partner in a sexual encounter or relationship.

Button

To be or be capable of being fastened with buttons
The blouse buttons up the back.

Bottom

Situated at the bottom
The bottom rung of the ladder.

Button

A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.

Bottom

Of the lowest degree, quality, rank, or amount
The bottom three teams in the league.

Button

A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.

Bottom

To provide with an underside.

Button

(graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.

Bottom

To provide with a foundation; base
Jurisprudence that is bottomed on democratic principles.

Button

(US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.

Bottom

To have or strike the underside against something
The car bottomed on the gravel.

Button

(botany) A bud.

Bottom

The lowest part of anything.
Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

Button

The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

Bottom

A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
There's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.

Button

(slang) The clitoris.

Bottom

Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
A soda and a bottom of brandy

Button

(curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.

Bottom

The far end of somewhere.
There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
I walked to the bottom of the street.

Button

(fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

Bottom

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

Button

(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

Bottom

Power of endurance.

Button

(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

Bottom

The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.

Button

(archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.

Bottom

Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?

Button

A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.

Bottom

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

Button

(aviation) The end of a runway.

Bottom

(euphemism) The buttocks or anus.

Button

A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).

Bottom

The lowest part of a container.

Button

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.

Bottom

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

Button

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

Bottom

An abyss.

Button

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

Bottom

(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.

Button

A small white blotch on a cat's coat.

Bottom

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

Button

A unit of length equal to 12 inch.

Bottom

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

Button

(generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

Bottom

(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Button

(lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.

Bottom

(gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.

Button

(lutherie) endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

Bottom

(particle physics) bottom quark.

Button

Synonym of adjuster.

Bottom

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

Button

The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

Bottom

(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Button

(television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

Bottom

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

Button

(comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

Bottom

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

Button

(slang) A button man; a professional assassin.

Bottom

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

Button

The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

Bottom

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

Button

A clove of garlic.

Bottom

To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

Button

(zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

Bottom

To be based or grounded.

Button

(transitive) To fasten with a button.

Bottom

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

Button

(intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
The coat will not button.

Bottom

(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.

Button

(informal) To stop talking.

Bottom

To fall to the lowest point.

Button

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

Bottom

To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.

Button

A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; - used also for ornament.

Bottom

To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
The only time I ever bottomed' in my life, my sphincter was pierced.

Button

A bud; a germ of a plant.

Bottom

The lowest or last place or position.
Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

Button

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

Bottom

(transgender) Relating to the genitals.
Bottom dysphoria
Bottom surgery

Button

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

Bottom

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
Or dive into the bottom of the deep.

Button

To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; - often followed by up.
He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.

Bottom

The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
Barrels with the bottom knocked out.
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.

Button

To dress or clothe.

Bottom

That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

Button

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

Bottom

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

Button

A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes

Bottom

The fundament; the buttocks.

Button

An electrical switch operated by pressing a button;
The elevator was operated by push buttons
The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk

Bottom

An abyss.

Button

Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons

Bottom

Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.

Button

A female sexual organ homologous to the penis

Bottom

The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in thesame bottoms in which they were shipped.

Button

Provide with buttons;
Button a shirt

Bottom

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

Button

Fasten with buttons;
Button the dress

Bottom

Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.

Bottom

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.

Bottom

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Bottom

To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; - followed by on or upon.
Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state].

Bottom

To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

Bottom

To reach or get to the bottom of.

Bottom

To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; - usually with on or upon.
Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.

Bottom

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.

Bottom

To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
As you unwind her love from him,Lest it should ravel and be good to none,You must provide to bottom it on me.

Bottom

The lower side of anything

Bottom

The lowest part of anything;
They started at the bottom of the hill

Bottom

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;
He deserves a good kick in the butt
Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Bottom

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

Bottom

A depression forming the ground under a body of water;
He searched for treasure on the ocean bed

Bottom

Low-lying alluvial land near a river

Bottom

A cargo ship;
They did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms

Bottom

Provide with a bottom or a seat;
Bottom the chairs

Bottom

Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

Bottom

Come to understand

Bottom

Situated at the bottom or lowest position;
The bottom drawer
The top shelf

Bottom

At the bottom; lowest or last;
The bottom price

Bottom

The lowest rank;
Bottom member of the class

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