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(often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian[1]:
In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
(Can we date this quote by Mortimer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Silkworms finish their bottoms in […] fifteen days.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
An abyss.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
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2004, John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships, page 119:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
To establish firmly; to found or justifyon or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.
(Can we date this quote by Atterbury and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
(Can we date this quote by South and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
2001, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59.
Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
(intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
(Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
(intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.