(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.
One
Definition:
(a.) Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
(a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.
(a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.
(a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
(a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.
(a.) Single; inmarried.
(n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
(n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
(n.) A single person or thing.
(indef. pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
(v. t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
(4) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
(5) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(6) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(7) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(8) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(9) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(10) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(11) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(12) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
(13) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(14) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
(15) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(17) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(18) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(19) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(20) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.