What's the difference between bottom and teapot?

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.

Teapot


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, Dimon publicly dismissed the concerns about the trading activities, calling them a "complete tempest in a teapot".
  • (2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
  • (3) Bob Jones, PCC for the West Midlands, told the Guardian: "I feel such equipment would be as much use as a chocolate teapot.
  • (4) Dimon, president and chief operating officer of JP Morgan, had initially dismissed talks of the "London whale" and mounting losses at the bank as a tempest in a teapot.
  • (5) Smaller readings were also found in other items of Pine Bar crockery, after the radioactive teapot was put in the dishwasher.
  • (6) Ongoing tempest For all his smooth talking, it is likely that the most memorable line to emerge from the career of JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon will be his crack about a "tempest in a teapot".
  • (7) The Lib Dems have pledged to scrap planned cuts , but their chances of gaining influence look as sturdy as a chocolate teapot.
  • (8) Even in the Teapot Dome scandal that shook Warren Harding’s administration in the early 1920s, and in the Watergate affair half a century later, it was not alleged that the president himself tried to intimidate an investigator.
  • (9) Her familiar query – “Who are you wearing?” – would quickly give way to such snarky commentary as her assessment of Adele’s Grammy outfit: the singer looked like she was sitting on a teapot.
  • (10) Five of the six largest forces in England and Wales said they were against deploying water cannon on their streets, with one police chief dismissing them as being "as much use as a chocolate teapot" for quelling disorder.
  • (11) The latest settlement relating to mortgage-backed securities follows a fine of more than $900m from a number of authorities over last year's London Whale trading incident, which Dimon had originally attempted to brush aside as "tempest in a teapot".
  • (12) Degree of difficulty (grades 1-4) with specific tasks (getting on and off a toilet, pouring from a teapot into a cup, turning taps on and off, carrying a saucepan of standard weight, and putting on shoes) and time taken to perform them.
  • (13) Mascall said subsequent tests on the teapot revealed massive contamination.
  • (14) And they all chose the symbol of a teapot to decorate the pot.
  • (15) And then I made that stupid comment about a tempest in a teapot."
  • (16) The Weather Service Nuclear Support Office has analyzed the meteorological and radiological data collected for the following atmospheric nuclear tests: TRINITY; EASY of the Tumbler-Snapper series; ANNIE, NANCY, BADGER, SIMON, and HARRY of the Upshot-Knothole series; BEE and ZUCCHINI of the Teapot series; BOLTZMANN and SMOKY of the Plumbbob series; and SMALL BOY of the Dominic II series.
  • (17) Lugovoi had put the polonium in a teapot, the inquiry heard.
  • (18) General election: Len McCluskey wins Unite leadership election - politics live Read more 5 The Fixed-term Parliaments Act turned out to be in the chocolate teapot category of uselessness All those assumptions about how it would prevent a prime minister calling an early election turned out to be unfounded when, after a low-key, 90-minute debate, the Commons passed a motion to override it by 522 votes to 13 because Labour MPs felt it was impossible for them to say no to dissolving parliament.
  • (19) Some had had their disability recognised before the study and already had aids, representing half of those with difficulty getting on and off the toilet but 24% for putting on shoes and 13% for pouring from a teapot and turning on a tap.
  • (20) Other gifts included a "Big Ben teapot [and] teabag rest", costing £30.25 on 10 February 2005 and a cookie and muffin basket costing £103.

Words possibly related to "teapot"