Bottom vs. Submissive

Bottomnoun

The lowest part of anything.

‘Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.’;

Submissiveadjective

Meekly obedient or passive.

Bottomnoun

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

‘lack bottom’;

Submissivenoun

(BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.

Bottomnoun

A valley, often used in place names.

‘Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?’;

Submissivenoun

(rare) One who submits.

Bottomnoun

The buttocks or anus.

Submissiveadjective

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.

‘Not at his feet submissive in distress,Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.’;

Bottomnoun

(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.

Submissiveadjective

Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.

‘With a submissive step I hasted down.’;

Bottomnoun

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

Submissiveadjective

inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination;

‘submissive servants’; ‘a submissive reply’; ‘replacing troublemakers with more submissive people’;

Bottomnoun

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

Submissiveadjective

willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent

Bottomnoun

(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Submissiveadjective

abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;

‘slavish devotion to her job ruled her life’; ‘a slavish yes-man to the party bosses’; ‘she has become submissive and subservient’;

Bottomnoun

A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.

Bottomnoun

(physics) A bottom quark.

Bottomnoun

The lowest part of a container.

Bottomnoun

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomnoun

An abyss.

Bottomnoun

(obsolete) Power of endurance.

‘a horse of a good bottom’;

Bottomnoun

(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomverb

To fall to the lowest point.

Bottomverb

To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.

Bottomverb

(intransitive) 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.

Bottomverb

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

Bottomverb

(transitive) To furnish with a bottom.

‘to bottom a chair’;

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

Bottomverb

(intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

‘I've never bottomed in my life.’;

Bottomadjective

The lowest or last place or position.

‘Those files should go on the bottom shelf.’;

Bottomnoun

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.’;

Bottomnoun

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.’; ‘No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.’;

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomnoun

The fundament; the buttocks.

Bottomnoun

An abyss.

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomnoun

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

‘My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.’; ‘Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in thesame bottoms in which they were shipped.’;

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomnoun

Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

‘He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.’;

Bottomnoun

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

‘Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.’;

Bottomadjective

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

Bottomverb

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

‘Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.’; ‘Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state].’;

Bottomverb

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

Bottomverb

To reach or get to the bottom of.

Bottomverb

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

‘Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.’;

Bottomverb

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.

Bottomverb

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

‘As you unwind her love from him,Lest it should ravel and be good to none,You must provide to bottom it on me.’;

Bottomnoun

the lower side of anything

Bottomnoun

the lowest part of anything;

‘they started at the bottom of the hill’;

Bottomnoun

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

‘he deserves a good kick in the butt’; ‘are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?’;

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomnoun

a depression forming the ground under a body of water;

‘he searched for treasure on the ocean bed’;

Bottomnoun

low-lying alluvial land near a river

Bottomnoun

a cargo ship;

‘they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms’;

Bottomverb

provide with a bottom or a seat;

‘bottom the chairs’;

Bottomverb

strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

Bottomverb

come to understand

Bottomadjective

situated at the bottom or lowest position;

‘the bottom drawer’; ‘the top shelf’;

Bottomadjective

at the bottom; lowest or last;

‘the bottom price’;

Bottomadjective

the lowest rank;

‘bottom member of the class’;

Bottomnoun

the lowest point or part of something

‘the bottom of the page’; ‘she paused at the bottom of the stairs’;

Bottomnoun

the ground under a sea, river, or lake

‘the liner plunged to the bottom of the sea’;

Bottomnoun

the lowest surface on the inside of a container

‘place the fruit on the bottom of the dish’;

Bottomnoun

the seat of a chair.

Bottomnoun

the furthest part or point of something

‘the shed at the bottom of the garden’;

Bottomnoun

the lowest position in a competition or ranking

‘he started at the bottom and now has his own business’;

Bottomnoun

the lower half of a specified two-piece garment

‘a pair of pyjama bottoms’;

Bottomnoun

another term for bottomland

‘river bottoms’;

Bottomnoun

the keel or hull of a ship

‘the double bottoms of the ship’;

Bottomnoun

a ship, especially a cargo carrier.

Bottomnoun

a person's buttocks

‘he climbs the side of the gorge, scratching his bottom unselfconsciously’;

Bottomnoun

one of six flavours of quark.

Bottomnoun

stamina or strength of character

‘whatever his faults, he possesses that old-fashioned quality—bottom’;

Bottomnoun

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

Bottomadjective

in the lowest position

‘the books on the bottom shelf’;

Bottomadjective

(of a place) in the furthest position away in a downhill direction

‘the bottom field’;

Bottomadjective

in the lowest or last position in a competition or ranking

‘they came bottom with 17 points’; ‘I was put in the bottom class’;

Bottomverb

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

‘nuclear submarines cannot bottom’;

Bottomverb

excavate (a hole or mine) to the level of a mineral-bearing stratum

‘scores of abandoned claims have never been properly bottomed, according to the old prospectors’;

Bottomverb

find gold or other minerals while mining

‘he's bottomed on opal there’;

Bottomverb

find the extent or real nature of

‘he had bottomed the whole inquiry’;

Bottomverb

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

‘encouraging signs suggested the recession was bottoming out’;