bottom
part of speech
noun (bottom, bottoms); adjective (bottom)
meaning for a pupil
1) The bottom is the lowest part of something. tree →
2) The bottom is the ground under water, like the bottom of the sea. tree →
3) Your bottom is the part of your body you sit on. tree →
4) The bottom of a list or a class is the last place. tree →
5) The bottom of something can also be the real cause or source hidden behind it. tree →
sense in the lessons
the lowest place, row or shelf; sometimes the base of a shape; phrases «at the bottom», «from top to bottom», «bottom line», «bottoms up», «get to the bottom of» (find the real cause)
examples
- The bottom shelf holds 15 books. tree →
- He climbs from the bottom to the top of 40 steps. tree →
- The bottom row has 9 cans. tree →
- The fish swims at the bottom of the tank. tree →
- Write your name at the bottom of the page. tree →
- We cleaned the house from top to bottom. tree →
- The detective got to the bottom of the mystery. tree →
- The baby fell on her bottom. tree →
- A stone sank to the bottom of the pond. tree →
- Our team was at the bottom of the table. tree →
- There must be a Princess at the bottom of this.’ tree →
note
A position, not an amount. Trap: in a stack of rows, the bottom row is often the biggest. «Bottom» of a fraction is the denominator. The opposite is «top».
In the corpora
- At the bottom are the facts: dates, official statements from the Palace, things filmed for everyone to see.
- Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS.
- Dubbing means recording new voices in another language; some countries prefer subtitles, the written words at the bottom of the screen.
- A full set of baby teeth, also called milk teeth, has 20 teeth: ten on top and ten on the bottom.
- Your pet rabbit bends down and eats something straight from its own bottom.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bottom» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.