Passive vs. Bottom — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Passive and Bottom
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Passive
Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance
The women were portrayed as passive victims
Bottom
A man who takes the passive role in anal intercourse with another man.
Passive
Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).
Bottom
The lowest point or part of something
The bottom of the page
She paused at the bottom of the stairs
Passive
(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
A passive optical network is to be installed in 2000 homes
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Bottom
A person's buttocks
He climbs the side of the gorge, scratching his bottom unselfconsciously
Passive
(of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.
Bottom
One of six flavours of quark.
Passive
A passive form of a verb.
Bottom
Stamina or strength of character
Whatever his faults, he possesses that old-fashioned quality—bottom
Passive
Receiving or subjected to an action without responding or initiating an action in return
The mind viewed as a passive receptacle for sensory experience.
Bottom
In the lowest position
The books on the bottom shelf
Passive
Accepting or submitting without objection or resistance; submissive
A passive acceptance of one's fate.
Bottom
(of a ship) reach or touch the ground under the sea
Nuclear submarines cannot bottom
Passive
Existing, conducted, or experienced without active or concerted effort
“Although tick paralysis is a reportable disease in Washington, surveillance is passive, and only 10 cases were reported during 1987–1995” (US Department of Health and Human Services). “[Many parents believe] that computers are educational and, at the least, less passive than television” (Laurie Hays).
Bottom
(of a situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving
Encouraging signs suggested the recession was bottoming out
Passive
Of, relating to, or being certain bonds or shares that do not bear financial interest.
Bottom
The deepest or lowest part
The bottom of a well.
The bottom of the page.
Passive
Of, relating to, or being a solar heating or cooling system that uses no external mechanical power.
Bottom
The part closest to a reference point
Was positioned at the bottom of the key for a rebound.
Passive
(Grammar) Of, relating to, or being a verb form or voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject is the object of the action or the effect of the verb. For example, in the sentence They were impressed by his manner, were impressed is in the passive voice.
Bottom
The underside
Scraped the bottom of the car on a rock.
Passive
(Chemistry) Unreactive except under special or extreme conditions; inert.
Bottom
The supporting part; the base.
Passive
(Electronics) Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy
A passive circuit element.
Bottom
The far end or part
At the bottom of the bed.
Passive
The passive voice.
Bottom
The last place, as on a list.
Passive
A verb or construction in the passive voice.
Bottom
The lowest or least favorable position
Started at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.
Passive
Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
Bottom
The basic underlying quality; the source
Let's get to the bottom of the problem.
Passive
Taking no action.
He remained passive during the protest.
Bottom
The solid surface under a body of water.
Passive
(grammar) Being in the passive voice.
Bottom
Often bottoms Low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river. Also called bottomland.
Passive
(psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
Bottom
(Nautical) The part of a ship's hull below the water line.
Passive
(finance) Not participating in management.
Bottom
A ship; a boat
"English merchants did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" (G.M. Trevelyan).
Passive
(aviation) Without motive power.
A passive balloon; a passive aeroplane; passive flight, such as gliding and soaring
Bottom
Often bottoms The trousers or short pants of pajamas.
Passive
(electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
Bottom
(Informal) The buttocks.
Passive
Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
Bottom
The seat of a chair.
Passive
(grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
Bottom
(Baseball) The second or last half of an inning.
Passive
(grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
Bottom
Staying power; stamina. Used of a horse.
Passive
(marketing) A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.
Bottom
(Slang) One who is penetrated by another person or is the submissive partner in a sexual encounter or relationship.
Passive
(electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
Bottom
Situated at the bottom
The bottom rung of the ladder.
Passive
Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
The passive airUpbore their nimble tread.
The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas.
Bottom
Of the lowest degree, quality, rank, or amount
The bottom three teams in the league.
Passive
Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
The best virtue, passive fortitude.
Bottom
To provide with an underside.
Passive
Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
Bottom
To provide with a foundation; base
Jurisprudence that is bottomed on democratic principles.
Passive
Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
Bottom
To have or strike the underside against something
The car bottomed on the gravel.
Passive
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb;
`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice
`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive
Bottom
The lowest part of anything.
Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
Passive
Lacking in energy or will;
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself
Bottom
A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
There's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
Passive
Peacefully resistant in response to injustice;
Passive resistance
Bottom
Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
A soda and a bottom of brandy
Passive
Expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb;
Academics seem to favor passive sentences
Bottom
The far end of somewhere.
There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
I walked to the bottom of the street.
Bottom
Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
Lack bottom
Bottom
Power of endurance.
Bottom
The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
Bottom
Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
Bottom
(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
Bottom
(euphemism) The buttocks or anus.
Bottom
The lowest part of a container.
Bottom
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
Bottom
An abyss.
Bottom
(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
Bottom
(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
Bottom
(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
Bottom
(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
Bottom
(gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
Bottom
(particle physics) bottom quark.
Bottom
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
Bottom
(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Bottom
(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
To bottom a chair
Bottom
(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
Bottom
(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
Bottom
(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
Bottom
To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
Bottom
To be based or grounded.
Bottom
To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
Bottom
(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
Bottom
To fall to the lowest point.
Bottom
To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
Bottom
To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
The only time I ever bottomed' in my life, my sphincter was pierced.
Bottom
The lowest or last place or position.
Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
Bottom
(transgender) Relating to the genitals.
Bottom dysphoria
Bottom surgery
Bottom
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.
Bottom
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.
Bottom
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
Bottom
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
Bottom
The fundament; the buttocks.
Bottom
An abyss.
Bottom
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
Bottom
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.
Bottom
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
Bottom
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
Bottom
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
Bottom
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
Bottom
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].
Bottom
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
Bottom
To reach or get to the bottom of.
Bottom
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; - usually with on or upon.
Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
Bottom
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.
Bottom
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.
Bottom
The lower side of anything
Bottom
The lowest part of anything;
They started at the bottom of the hill
Bottom
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?
Bottom
The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
Bottom
A depression forming the ground under a body of water;
He searched for treasure on the ocean bed
Bottom
Low-lying alluvial land near a river
Bottom
A cargo ship;
They did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
Bottom
Provide with a bottom or a seat;
Bottom the chairs
Bottom
Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
Bottom
Come to understand
Bottom
Situated at the bottom or lowest position;
The bottom drawer
The top shelf
Bottom
At the bottom; lowest or last;
The bottom price
Bottom
The lowest rank;
Bottom member of the class
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