Definition of Bottom

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.

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.

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

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

The fundament; the buttocks.

An abyss.

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

The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

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

Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

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

To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.

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

To reach or get to the bottom of.

To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.

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.

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

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

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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton