Meaning

present participle and gerund of bottom.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of bottom
2. The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
3. A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
4. Material used to line the bottom of something.
5. (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
6. Residue left at the bottom of something.
7. (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
8. (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.

Example Sentences

In the course of this investigation, it was learned that the mean number of bottomings per second could be calculated theoretically […]

A hundred and fifty yards from its bottoming, the cliff trail squeezed between a pair of portal rocks.

Many analysts point to the slowing building rate for new office space as evidence of a bottoming of the commercial real estate market.

These and the like are the maine truths in your esteeme, which I conceive have no bottoming in the holy Scripture.

a road made with six inches of broken stone of great hardness, laid either on a foundation of large stones, set in the form of a pavement, or upon a bottoming of concrete

[The ramparts of] Rough Castle and Bar Hill […] like that of Birrens, rest upon stone bottomings. The Antonine Wall is of the same construction, only on a larger scale.

One cannot take a Holmes precedent and spin out the resolution of companion cases; one cannot go to Holmes to find the substantive bottomings of an area of law

[…] we were overtaken by a storm, and camped ten miles short of the ranch; we could afford to do this, as his wagon had a good tilt and a bottoming of straw.

Word Forms

• bottomings

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Use bottoming when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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