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bottom 1. Nautical touch bottom to run aground 2. Nautical the parts of a vessel's hull that are under water 3. (in literary or commercial contexts) a boat or ship 4. Billiards Snooker a strike in the centre of the cue ball 5. a dry valley or hollow 6. US and Canadian the low land bordering a river bottom [′bäd·əm] (computer science) The termination of a file. (geology) The bed of a body of running or still water. (particle physics) The new quantum number associated with the bottom quark. Also known as beauty. Bottom under spell, grows ass’s head. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream] See : Enchantment
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"Then the box has two bottoms," announced the Scarecrow, "for the bottom on the inside is fully an inch away from the bottom on the outside. And there they are, calling and calling at the bottom of the sea - my three boys and my man. The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage. |
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