What's the difference between arse and bottom?

Arse


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (2) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (3) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
  • (4) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
  • (5) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
  • (6) Matilda, he says, plays to "the classic kids' fantasy that one day they just turn up and kick everyone's arse".
  • (7) New Zealand 0-1 McMillan c Harbhajan b Zaheer 0 A half-arsed shout for lbw first ball, and then this: McMillan clips the ball lazily off his legs to square leg, and it's an easy catch for Singh.
  • (8) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (9) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
  • (10) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
  • (11) The ball gone, he connects with Armero's arse instead!
  • (12) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
  • (13) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
  • (14) My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
  • (15) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
  • (16) Certainly not Sean DeLoughry, Steven Smith and Seamus McCann, all of whom correctly recalled how, after blazing his way through Germany (Stuttgart), Italy (AC Milan), and Spain (Espanyol), Raducioiu blasted three goals in West Ham colours before half-arsing his way back to Espanyol, and eventually on to Monaco in France.
  • (17) It was very difficult, because I fundamentally believe that we have a problem with representation that needs to be tackled and feminism needs to be for everyone, but having a platform means that people without one direct their anger at you, at your face and at your writing, and, as a half-arsed feminist, I'm still learning how to cope with the pressure to represent everyone, all the time.
  • (18) Can't make it all out, but it does include the charming line 'He slipped on his fucking arse.'
  • (19) "Both my Mum and my Dad, who began having contact again, made it clear I wouldn't be allowed to just sit on my arse."
  • (20) Maloney goes over in the box under heat from Asatiani, but he knows full well there's nothing in the challenge and his appeals for a penalty are nearly as half-arsed as Scotland's overall performance.

Bottom


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
  • (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
  • (n.) The fundament; the buttocks.
  • (n.) An abyss.
  • (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
  • (n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
  • (n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
  • (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
  • (v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
  • (v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of.
  • (v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
  • (v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
  • (3) The bottom line is that access to abortion is a matter of social justice.
  • (4) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
  • (5) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (6) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
  • (7) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
  • (8) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (9) In some cases, a change in the type of bottom resulted in the opposite order of rates for vessels with the same diameter.
  • (10) 10.34pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 8, bottom of the 6th David Ortiz leads off the inning against Chris Archer, still in the game, he grounds into the Maddon shift.
  • (11) As is frequently the case, the bottom line in preventing and treating intra-abdominal adhesions is appropriate surgical technique.
  • (12) Companies like Origin and EnergyAustralia are pushing to weaken the target not, as they like to claim, because that would be good for customers, but because a weaker target is better for their bottom line,” Connor said.
  • (13) You can be very cosy with someone but, at the end of the day, it’s about the bottom line.
  • (14) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
  • (15) The calibrated aperture in the bottom of each well is small enough to retain fluid contents by surface tension during monolayer growth, but also permits fluid to enter the wells when transfer plates are lowered into receptacles containing washing buffer or test sera.
  • (16) When you are informed that 200 children are missing, you don’t go to dinner until you have got to the bottom of it.
  • (17) That is the bottom line.” Others described the need for a policy of containing Iran, especially with the lifting of economic sanctions.
  • (18) In order to study the effects of different glass ionomers on the metabolism of Streptococcus mutans, test slabs of freshly mixed conventional glass ionomer (Fuji), silver glass ionomer (Ketac-Silver), composite (Silux), and 2-week-old Fuji were fitted into the bottom of a test tube.
  • (19) The plates were viewed directly in an inverted UV microscope or were inspected and photographed bottoms up with a conventional UV microscope mounted with an old-fashioned uncorrected objective (20 X) which, because of its shorter length, permitted proper focussing.
  • (20) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.