Bottom vs. Button

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Difference Between Bottom and Button

Bottomnoun

The lowest part of anything.

Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

Buttonnoun

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.

Bottomnoun

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

lack bottom

Buttonnoun

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.

Bottomnoun

A valley, often used in place names.

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

Buttonnoun

(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.
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Bottomnoun

The buttocks or anus.

Buttonnoun

(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.

Bottomnoun

(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.

Buttonnoun

(botany) A bud.

Bottomnoun

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

Buttonnoun

The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

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Bottomnoun

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

Buttonnoun

(slang) The clitoris.

Bottomnoun

(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

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

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

(physics) A bottom quark.

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

The lowest part of a container.

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

Buttonnoun

(archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.

Bottomnoun

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

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

An abyss.

Buttonnoun

A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).

Bottomnoun

(obsolete) Power of endurance.

a horse of a good bottom

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomnoun

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

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomverb

To fall to the lowest point.

Buttonnoun

A small white blotch on a cat's coat.

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.

Buttonnoun

A unit of length equal to 1/12 of an inch.

Bottomverb

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

Buttonnoun

The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

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.

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomverb

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

Buttonnoun

(lutherie) lang=en.

Bottomverb

(transitive) To furnish with a bottom.

to bottom a chair

Buttonnoun

synonym of adjuster.

Bottomverb

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

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

I've never bottomed in my life.

Buttonnoun

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

Bottomadjective

The lowest or last place or position.

Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

Buttonverb

(transitive) To fasten with a button.

Bottomnoun

the lower side of anything

Buttonverb

(intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.

The coat will not button.

Bottomnoun

the lowest part of anything;

they started at the bottom of the hill

Buttonnoun

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

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?

Buttonnoun

an electrical switch operated by pressing a button;

the elevator was operated by push buttonsthe push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk

Bottomnoun

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

Buttonnoun

any of various plant parts that resemble buttons

Bottomnoun

a depression forming the ground under a body of water;

he searched for treasure on the ocean bed

Buttonnoun

a female sexual organ homologous to the penis

Bottomnoun

low-lying alluvial land near a river

Buttonverb

provide with buttons;

button a shirt

Bottomnoun

a cargo ship;

they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms

Buttonverb

fasten with buttons;

button the dress

Bottomverb

provide with a bottom or a seat;

bottom the chairs

Bottomverb

strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

Bottomverb

come to understand

Bottomadjective

situated at the bottom or lowest position;

the bottom drawerthe top shelf

Bottomadjective

at the bottom; lowest or last;

the bottom price

Bottomadjective

the lowest rank;

bottom member of the class