What's the difference between bottom and deep?

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.

Deep


Definition:

  • (superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
  • (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.
  • (superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
  • (superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
  • (superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
  • (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.
  • (superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
  • (superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
  • (superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.
  • (adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
  • (n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
  • (n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
  • (2) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
  • (3) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
  • (4) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (5) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (6) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (7) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (8) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
  • (9) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
  • (10) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
  • (11) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (12) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (13) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (14) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
  • (15) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (16) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
  • (17) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
  • (18) This was followed firstly by superficial and then by deep ulceration of the mucosa.
  • (19) In deep forms of acne, particularly acne conglobata, Akne-Mycyna may be a valuable supplementation of systemic treatment.
  • (20) The soleus, deep portions of the vastus lateralis, and superficial portions of the vastus lateralis muscles were examined to represent slow-twitch-oxidative, fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic, and fast-twitch-glycolytic skeletal muscle fiber types, respectively.