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"BOTTOMS" is a plural of: bottom. |
Date "BOTTOMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Deposit of yeasts, bacteria, tartar and other solid matter found on the bottom of vessels containing wine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Used in connection with the Orford process for separating nickel and copper as sulfides. When the mixed sulfides are fused with sodium sulfide, the nickel sulfide separates to the bottom. See also:tile coppe b. The material drawn off from the bottom of a tower or still. Any residueaccumulating in the bottom of a process vessel. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I burst my pimples at you and call your door-opening request a silly thing; you tiny brained wipers of other peoples' bottoms. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) All of our bottoms were a lot smaller then (7th Heaven; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid) Bottoms are their own crisis scale (Coupling; writing credit: Steven Moffat) I'm on tape in my ex-boyfriend's closet, very nude and very pornographic. Where does bottoms fit in on the crisis scale (Coupling; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
Lyrics | Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bottoms Up (1974) Wet & Wild: Bottoms Up (1996) What Bottoms Are For (1985) | |
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 | This patient presented with papulosquamous syphilids on the wrist and palms during the secondary stage of syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots and can appear on both the palms of the hands and on the bottoms of the feet. Credit: CDC. |  | View of the concrete lower culvert that passes underneath Sea View Street. This lower pipe was installed at an invert below the adjacent creek bottoms and has partly filled in with sediment and debris. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, Cancer Magister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivory depressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms in subtidal regions and in eelgrass beds ranging from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, to Santa Barbara, California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Artificial reefs can increase productivity of sandy bottoms. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Bottoms up!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wife and child of sharecropper, cut-over farmer in bottoms of Mississippi River. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Feet and clothing of family of sharecropper, cut-over farmer of Mississippi bottoms. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' t. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Birds eye view, west bottoms from Cursy Coats [i.e., Kersey Coates] Drive, Kansas City, Mo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bottoms up. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He wrung the bottoms of his trousers, took off his coat and squeezed the water from it. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | You will export such articles as the country affords, purely native products, much ice and pine timber and a little granite, always in native bottoms. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots both on the palms of the hands and on the bottoms of the feet. The rash also may also appear on other parts of the body with different characteristics, some of which resemble other diseases. (references) | |
Economic History | Ghana | It is grown mainly in the valley bottoms, employing traditional farming practices. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We shall answer it best by meeting the demand of a surpassing home market, by promoting self-reliance in production, and by bidding enterprise, genius, and efficiency to carry our cargoes in American bottoms to the marts of the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BOTTOMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.23% of the time. "BOTTOMS" is used about 297 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 89.23% | 265 | 18,112 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.44% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.34% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 297 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BOTTOMS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bottoms | Last name | 3,000 | 4,292 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "BOTTOMS": bottoms up!. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BOTTOMS": bottoms-up. | |
Ending with "BOTTOMS": bell-bottoms, flat-bottoms, hedge-bottoms, street-bottoms, Tops-and-bottoms, top-to-bottoms, trouser-bottoms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BOTTOMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | bærme (lees), vinbærme (lees), trub (lees, sludge, trub), remanens (magnetic remanence, remanence, residual magnetization, residue), destillationsbundfald (heel, tailings). (various references) | |
Dutch | bodemvloeistof (distillation residue, heel, residual oil, still residue, tailings, tower bottoms), bezinksel (base, bottom, deposit, deposits, heel, lees, precipitate, sediment, sludge, tailings), wijnmoer (lees, wine lees), residue (residue), moer (female, marsh, nut, swamp), droesem (lees, marc, pomace), destillatieresten (heel, tailings), destillatieresidu's (heel, tailings). (various references) | |
Finnish | pohjasakka (dregs, grounds, lees, sediment). (various references) | |
French | résidu de distillation (tower bottoms), résidu, produit de queue, lies, lie de vin. (various references) | |
German | Bodensatz (deposit, dregs, grounds, lees, sediment), Blasenrest (residue), Böden (grounds, soils), Trub (lees, sludge, trub), Talsohlen, Sohlen (sole, soles), Rueckstand (residual product, residue), Hefetrub (lees), Destillationsrückstände (heel, tailings). (various references) | |
Greek | κατακάθια (crust, ground), προϊόντα καθίζησης (lees), προϊόντα πυθμένα (heel, tailings), υπόλειμμα (relic, relics, relique, remnant, residue, residuum, residwe, scrap, trace, vestige), υποστάθμη (dregs, residuum, sediment, settlings), υπολείμματα απόσταξης (heel, tailings), τρύγα (lees), οινολάσπη (gross lees, lees, wine lees). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenéktermék, üledék (deposit, deposition, dreg, dregs, dross, emptyings, faeces, precipitate, precipitation, residual, residue, sediment, settlings, silt, sludge). (various references) | |
Italian | residuo (end, remaining, residual, residue, trace), residui di distillazione (heel, tailings), feccie (lees), fecce (lees, sludge), coda (line, queue, tail, train). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 船腹 (freight space, shipping, ship's hold, side or bottom of a ship, tonnage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せ"ぷく (ambush, concealment, freight space, hiding, incubation, shipping, ship's beam, ship's hold, side or bottom of a ship, tonnage). (various references) | |
Manx | binn (ben, ends, environs, peaks, summs). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ottomsbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | borras (emptyings, leavings, lees, sediment), borra (draff, dreg, grain, grout), mãe (mother, mum, old lady, old woman, venter), lias (lias), fracções finais de destilação (heel, tailings). (various references) | |
Romanian | bea pânã la fund (bottoms up, drain to the dregs, drink to the dregs, drink up, finish your glass), dã-o pe gât (bottoms up, down the hatch). (various references) | |
Russian | до дна (bottoms up). (various references) | |
Spanish | residuo (remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, waste), partes finales de la destilación (heel, tailings), lías (lees), heces (dregs, lees, sediment, slop, sweepings). (various references) | |
Swedish | bottensats (deposit, dregs, foots, Lees, sediment, settlings), vindrägg (lees), druv (lees, sludge, trub), drägg (draff, dregs, foots, lees, offal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пий до дна (bottoms up). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jonah Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Periecuqh udwr moi ewV yuchV abussoV ekuklwsen me escath edu h kefalh mou eiV scismaV orewn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Circumdederunt me aquae usque ad animam abyssus vallavit me pelagus operuit caput meum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Temple Waters enuirounden me vn to my soule, depnesse encloside me, the se hillide myn hed. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And I wet downe vn to the botome of the hylles and was barred in with erth on euery syde for euer. And yet thou lorde my God broughtest vp my life agayne out of corrupcion. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head. |
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| Language | Jonah Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Ilalum sa kabukiran nanaug ako; Ang yuta uban sa iyang mga trangka nagtak-up kanako sa walay katapusan: Apan ikaw nagbangon sa akong kinabuhi gikan sa gahong, Oh Jehova nga akong Dios. |
| Croatian | Vode me do grla okružiše, bezdan me opkoli. Trave mi glavu omotaše, |
| Danish | Vandene trued min Sjæl, Dybet omgav mig, Tang var viklet om mit Hoved; til Bjergenes Rødder |
| Dutch | Ik was nedergedaald tot de gronden der bergen; de grendelen der aarde waren om mij henen in eeuwigheid; maar Gij hebt mijn leven uit het verderf opgevoerd, o HEERE, mijn God! |
| Finnish | Vedet piirittivät minut aina sieluun asti, syvyys ympäröitsi minut, kaisla kietoutui päähäni. |
| German | Ich sank hinunter zu der Berge Gründen, die Erde hatte mich verriegelt ewiglich; aber du hast mein Leben aus dem Verderben geführt, HERR, mein Gott. |
| Hungarian | Körülvettek engem a vizek lelkemig, mély ár kerített be engem, hinár szövõdött fejemre. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Aku terjun sampai ke dasar pegunungan, ke alam yang gerbangnya terkunci hingga akhir zaman. Nyawaku letih lesu di dalam diriku, lalu aku ingat dan berseru kepada-Mu. Maka sampailah doaku kepada-Mu, ke dalam Rumah-Mu yang kudus. Lalu Kaunaikkan aku dari dalam laut, ya TUHAN Allahku! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Aku sudah turun sampai kepada alas segala gunung dan segala kancing bumipun sudah tertutup di belakang aku sampai selama-lamanya, tetapi Engkau sudah membawa naik akan jiwaku dari dalam kebinasaan, ya Tuhan, Allahku! |
| Italian | Le acque mi hanno sommerso fino alla gola, l'abisso mi ha avvolto, l'alga si è avvinta al mio capo. |
| Manx Gaelic | Hie mee sheese choud's undin ny sleityn; bee yn thalloo as ny barryn eck my-geayrt-y-moom dy bragh, mannagh jean oo my vioys y livrey veih toyrt-mow, O Hiarn my Yee. |
| Maori | I haere ahau ki raro ki nga take o nga maunga; kopia ana ahau e te whenua me ona tutaki ake ake; heoi whakaputaina ake ana e koe toku ora i roto i te poka, e Ihowa, e toku Atua. |
| Norwegian | Vannene omringet mig like til sjelen, dypet omgav mig, tang innhyllet mitt hode, |
| Portuguese | Eu desci até os fundamentos dos montes; a terra encerrou-me para sempre com os seus ferrolhos; mas tu, Senhor meu Deus, fizeste subir da cova a minha vida. |
| Rumanian | M`am pogorkt pknq la temeliile munyilor, zqvoarele pqmkntului mq kncuiau pe vecie; dar Tu m`ai scos viu din groapq, Doamne, Dumnezeul meu! |
| Swedish | Vatten omvärvde mig in på livet, djupet omslöt mig; sjögräs omsnärjde mitt huvud. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"BOTTOMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bettom, bittom, botom, Botoms, bottem, botton, Bottone, Boutons, Butomus, buttom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BOTTOMS" (pronounced bÄ"tumz) |
| 4 | -t u m z | ageratums, atoms, bantams, customs, ecosystems, items, phantoms, subsystems, symptoms, systems, totems, ultimatums, victims. |
| 3 | -u m z | acronyms, albums, algorithms, alums, amalgams, anachronisms, angstroms, antagonisms, anthems, aphorisms, aquariums, auditoriums, axioms, consortiums, baptisms, blossoms, caladiums, chrysanthemums, columns, condominiums, condoms, criticisms, curriculums, dirhams, doldrums, dualisms, emblems, embolisms, enthusiasms, euphemisms, fathoms, fiefdoms, forums, freedoms, geraniums, ginghams, Grahams, gymnasiums, herbariums, honorariums, hoodlums, idioms, isms, kingdoms, logarithms, mannerisms, maxims, mechanisms, mediums, memorandums, metabolisms, methodisms, microorganisms, millenniums, minimums, modems, monisms, moratoriums, museums, nostrums, organisms, orgasms, pilgrims, podiums, poems, possums, premiums, problems, puritanisms, quorums, ransoms, referendums, rhythms, schisms, sedums, sheikdoms, spasms, spectrums, stadiums, stratagems, surrealisms, symposiums, tantrums, transoms, welcomes, zirconiums. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-m-o-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: bottom, mottos. | |
-2 letters: booms, boost, boots, bosom, botts, moots, motto, motts, ottos, tombs, toots. | |
-3 letters: boom, boos, boot, bots, bott, mobs, moos, moot, most, mots, mott, oots, otto, soot, stob, tomb, toms, toom, toot, tost, tots. | |
-4 letters: boo, bos, bot, mob, moo, mos, mot, oms, oot, sob, som, sot, tom, too, tot. | |
-5 letters: bo, mo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-m-o-o-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: bottomers, tombstone. | |
+3 letters: bottomless, bottommost, bottomries, motorboats, tombstones, trombonist. | |
+4 letters: bottomlands, trombonists. | |
+5 letters: automobilist, bottomlessly, footlamberts, motorboaters, phlebotomist, thrombocytes. | |
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