bottom

n. அடி, அடிப்புறம், அடிப்பரப்பு,அடித்தளம், அடிப்படை, மூடு, தூர், ஆதாரம், உடலின் பிட்டம், நாற்காலியில் இருப்பிடம், நீர்நிலைப் படுகை, கலத்தின் அடிக்கட்டு, புத்தகப் பக்கத்தின் அடிப்பகுதி, மலையின் தாழ்வாரம், ஆற்றடுத்த தாழ்நிலம், கப்பல் அடித்தட்டு, கப்பல், கீழ்ப்புறம், மறுபுறம், இழிபுறம், உட்கடந்த பகுதி, நிலத்தளம், நிலத்தளப்பணி, முக்கிய கூறு, நிலையாற்றல், உறுதியான செல்வளம், பொய்ம்மயிர்த் தொங்கல்,(வினையடை) அடிப்பகுதி சார்ந்த, தாழ்வான, கடைப்பட்ட, கடைசி யான, அடிப்படையான, (வினை) வாத ஆதாரமாக்கு, அடிப்படையாக்கு, நிலைநாட்டு, ஆழங்காண், உளவுகாண், அடி மெய்ம்மை கண்டுபிடி, அடித்தங்கு, அடிப்பகுதி அமை, தூரிடு.

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Bot"tom, n. Etym: [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn ), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr.budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.] 1. 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. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak. 2. 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. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving. 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. 5. The fundament; the buttocks. 6. An abyss. [Obs.] Dryden. 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." Stoddard. 8. (Naut.) Defn: The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. 9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. Johnson. At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper. -- To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison. -- To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. -- To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest. Bot"tom, a. Defn: Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7. Bot"tom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottomed (p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming.] 1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South. 2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair. 3. To reach or get to the bottom of. Smiles. Bot"tom, v. i. 1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon. Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. Locke. 2. 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. Bot"tom, n. Etym: [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button.] Defn: A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.] Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer. Bot"tom, v. t. Defn: To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.] As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak.