Base vs. Bottom — What's the Difference?

The lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported

The lowest point or part of something

A conceptual structure or entity on which something draws or depends

A person's buttocks

A place used as a centre of operations by the armed forces or others; a headquarters

One of six flavours of quark.

A main or important element or ingredient to which other things are added

Stamina or strength of character

A substance capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt and water, or (more broadly) of accepting or neutralizing hydrogen ions.

A man who takes the passive role in anal intercourse with another man.

The middle part of a bipolar transistor, separating the emitter from the collector.

In the lowest position

The root or stem of a word or a derivative.

(of a ship) reach or touch the ground under the sea

A number used as the basis of a numeration scale.

(of a situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving

Each of the four stations that must be reached in turn to score a run.

The deepest or lowest part

Use (something specified) as the foundation or starting point for something

The part closest to a reference point

Situate at a specified place as the centre of operations

The underside

Without moral principles; ignoble

The supporting part; the base.

Denoting or befitting a person of low social class.

The far end or part

(of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal

The last place, as on a list.

The lowest or bottom part

The lowest or least favorable position

The part of a plant or animal organ that is nearest to its point of attachment.

The basic underlying quality; the source

The point of attachment of such an organ.

The solid surface under a body of water.

A supporting part or layer; a foundation

Often bottoms Low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river. Also called bottomland.

A basic or underlying element; infrastructure

(Nautical) The part of a ship's hull below the water line.

The fundamental principle or underlying concept of a system or theory; a basis.

A ship; a boat

A fundamental ingredient; a chief constituent

Often bottoms The trousers or short pants of pajamas.

The fact, observation, or premise from which a reasoning process is begun.

(Informal) The buttocks.

(Games) A starting point, safety area, or goal.

The seat of a chair.

(Baseball) Any one of the four corners of an infield, marked by a bag or plate, that must be touched by a runner before a run can be scored.

(Baseball) The second or last half of an inning.

A center of organization, supply, or activity; a headquarters.

Staying power; stamina. Used of a horse.

The portion of a social organization, especially a political party, consisting of the most dedicated or motivated members.

(Slang) One who is penetrated by another person or is the submissive partner in a sexual encounter or relationship.

A fortified center of operations.

Situated at the bottom

A supply center for a large force of military personnel.

Of the lowest degree, quality, rank, or amount

A facial cosmetic used to even out the complexion or provide a surface for other makeup; a foundation.

To provide with an underside.

(Architecture) The lowest part of a structure, such as a wall, considered as a separate unit

To provide with a foundation; base

(Heraldry) The lower part of a shield.

To have or strike the underside against something

(Linguistics) A morpheme or morphemes regarded as a form to which affixes or other bases may be added.

The lowest part of anything.

The side or face of a geometric figure to which an altitude is or is thought to be drawn.

A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.

The number that is raised to various powers to generate the principal counting units of a number system. The base of the decimal system, for example, is 10.

Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.

The number raised to the logarithm of a designated number in order to produce that designated number; the number at which a chosen logarithmic scale has the value 1.

The far end of somewhere.

A line used as a reference for measurement or computations.

Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

Any of a class of compounds whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a bitter taste, a slippery feel, the ability to turn litmus blue, and the ability to react with acids to form salts.

Power of endurance.

A substance that yields hydroxide ions when dissolved in water.

The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.

A substance that can act as a proton acceptor.

Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

A substance that can donate a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond.

(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

The region in a transistor between the emitter and the collector.

(euphemism) The buttocks or anus.

The electrode attached to this region.

The lowest part of a container.

One of the nitrogen-containing purines (adenine and guanine) or pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine, and uracil) that occurs attached to the sugar component of DNA or RNA.

The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

A bass singer or voice.

An abyss.

Forming or serving as a base

(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.

Situated at or near the base or bottom

(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

(Chemistry) Of, relating to, or containing a base.

(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

Having or showing a lack of decency; contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish.

(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Being a metal that is of little value.

(gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.

Containing such metals

(particle physics) bottom quark.

(Archaic) Of low birth, rank, or position.

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

(Obsolete) Short in stature.

(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

To form or provide a base for

(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.

To find a basis for; establish

(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).

To assign to a base; station

(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.

A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

To be based or grounded.

A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.

The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.

A basic but essential component or ingredient.

To fall to the lowest point.

A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.

(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

The lowest or last place or position.

Important areas in games and sports.

(transgender) Relating to the genitals.

A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.

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.

(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.

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.

(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

The fundament; the buttocks.

(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

An abyss.

(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

(mathematics) radix.

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; - followed by on or upon.

(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.

To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

To reach or get to the bottom of.

(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; - usually with on or upon.

(music) bass

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.

The smallest kind of cannon.

To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

(archaic) The housing of a horse.

The lower side of anything

A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

The lowest part of anything;

(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

(obsolete) An apron.

The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

A depression forming the ground under a body of water;

(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.

Low-lying alluvial land near a river

(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.

A cargo ship;

A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.

Provide with a bottom or a seat;

(aviation) base leg

Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

(slang) freebase cocaine

Come to understand

The game of prisoners' bars.

Situated at the bottom or lowest position;

Alternative form of BASE

At the bottom; lowest or last;

(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

The lowest rank;

(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).

To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

(slang) To freebase.

(obsolete) Low in height; short.

Low in place or position.

(obsolete) Of low value or degree.

(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.

(of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.

(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.

Not classical or correct.

Obsolete form of bass

(legal) Not held by honourable service.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

Low in place or position.

Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.

Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.

Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.

Not classical or correct.

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.

Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.

The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.

Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; - applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

The chief ingredient in a compound.

A substance used as a mordant.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.

The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.

A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.

A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.

The smallest kind of cannon.

That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.

The basal plane of a crystal.

The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.

The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

The housing of a horse.

A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

An apron.

The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

A rustic play; - called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.

Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.

To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; - used with on or upon.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.

To reduce the value of; to debase.

Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water;

Installation from which a military force initiates operations;

Lowest support of a structure;

Place that runner must touch before scoring;

(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place;

The bottom or lowest part;

(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment;

A lower limit;

The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

A support or foundation;

The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed;

The most important or necessary part of something;

The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

An intensely anti-western terrorist network that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist group; has cells in more than 50 countries

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area;

The principal ingredient of a mixture;

A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;

(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

Use as a basis for; found on;

Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Assign to a station

Serving as or forming a base;

(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

Not adhering to ethical or moral principles;

Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;

Illegitimate

Debased; not genuine;