Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
1,808,572,208 visitors served.
forum mailing list For webmasters
?
New: Language forums
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

bottom
(redirected from you can bet your bottom dollar)

    Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Financial, Idioms, Wikipedia 0.03 sec.
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.
root
(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
(theory)bottom - The least defined element in a given domain.

Often used to represent a non-terminating computation.

(In LaTeX, bottom is written as \perp, sometimes with the domain as a subscript).


How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
 Email
Feedback
? Mentioned in ? References in periodicals archive
 
But you can bet your bottom dollar that the next few years will bring us a tidal wave of pop apocalypse books: The One-Minute Eco-Manager, Photo-Voltaic Cells For Dummies, The South Beach Global Warming Diet Guide, Ten Places to Visit Before You Drown, Warm Mountain, The Five People You Meet in Heaven After the Arctic Melts, and Who Moved Cape Cod, Montauk and Santa Monica?
Whose ox was Gore-d? How to profit from the coming apocalypse by Queenan, Joe / Chief Executive (U.S.)
You can bet your bottom dollar that everyone in the country would be watching that final round with Michelle Wie in the lead by two strokes.
WIE'S CRITICS ARE WAY OFF COURSE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
If you do, and water backs up into the canopy housing because of a clogged drain hole, you can bet your bottom dollar that the canopy jettison system will short out.
Snake the drain hole by PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
More results
 
Encyclopedia browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Terms of Use.