What's the difference between bottom and fall?

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.

Fall


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
  • (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
  • (v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
  • (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
  • (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
  • (v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
  • (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
  • (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
  • (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
  • (v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
  • (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
  • (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
  • (v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
  • (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
  • (v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive.
  • (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
  • (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
  • (v. t.) To belong or appertain.
  • (v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
  • (v. t.) To let fall; to drop.
  • (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
  • (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
  • (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
  • (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
  • (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
  • (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
  • (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
  • (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
  • (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
  • (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
  • (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
  • (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
  • (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
  • (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
  • (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
  • (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
  • (n.) The act of felling or cutting down.
  • (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
  • (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
  • (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (2) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
  • (3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (5) Rise time and fall time constants have been quantified for describing kinetics of response.
  • (6) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
  • (7) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
  • (8) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
  • (9) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
  • (10) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (11) Addition of extracellular mevalonate led to a concentration-dependent fall in both processes, although a higher concentration was required to produce the same effect on LDL degradation as on HMG-CoA reductase activity.
  • (12) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.
  • (13) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (14) The asthma group's fall in FEV1 was also abolished.
  • (15) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (16) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (17) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
  • (18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
  • (19) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
  • (20) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.