(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.
(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
(n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
(v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
(v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
(2) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
(6) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(7) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
(8) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(9) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
(10) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
(11) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
(12) g (SD 0.15, N = 21), which was similar to tail skin.
(13) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(14) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
(15) These apparent conflicting results between IK and the tail current could not be explained by extracellular K+ fluctuation, because 20 mM Cs+ alone depressed both factors, but an additional application of Ba2+ caused an increase in both components compared with those in the former condition.
(16) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(17) Deletion of a carboxyl-terminal sequence, comprising the transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic tail of the alpha chain of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR-alpha), prevented the rapid degradation of this polypeptide.
(18) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
(19) Diltiazem also produced a slight decrease of both the steady-state current during depolarization and the tail current after repolarization in these concentration ranges, while the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) was not affected significantly.
(20) A fluorescent fucose-specific lectin-stained bodies and not tails of the organism.