Bottoming
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bottoming is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bottom.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of bottom.
More Meanings
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
Example Sentences
A hundred and fifty yards from its bottoming, the cliff trail squeezed between a pair of portal rocks.
These and the like are the maine truths in your esteeme, which I conceive have no bottoming in the holy Scripture.
Many analysts point to the slowing building rate for new office space as evidence of a bottoming of the commercial real estate market.
In the course of this investigation, it was learned that the mean number of bottomings per second could be calculated theoretically […]
Word Forms
- bottomings
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