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higher
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ha??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ha??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Homophone: hire (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: high?er
Adjective
higher
- comparative form of high: more high
Adverb
higher
- comparative form of high: more high
Noun
higher (plural highers)
- (Scotland, education) A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
Verb
higher (third-person singular simple present highers, present participle highering, simple past and past participle highered)
- (transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
- 1847, George Crosby, Crosby's Parliamentary Record
- It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the amount of your exports?
- 1903, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates, House of Commons
- I am glad also that my hon. friend the Minister of Finance had the firmness to oppose all these influences to make him change his policy, and I hope, for the good of the country and the blessing of the Dominion, that when any change takes place it will be in the direction of lowering rather than of highering the tariff.
- 1847, George Crosby, Crosby's Parliamentary Record
- (intransitive) To ascend.
Derived terms
- Coity Higher
- Llanrhidian Higher
References
- higher in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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bottom
English
Alternative forms
- botton (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek ?????? (puthm?n, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit ????? (budhna, “bottom”), Persian ??? (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the “verb to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?t?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?t?m/, [?b???m]
Noun
bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)
- The lowest part of anything.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out}}
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- Coordinate term: top
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- a soda and a bottom of brandy
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 71:
- The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
- 1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 71:
- (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- 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?)
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- (particle physics) A bottom quark.
- Hypernym: flavor
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.
- (obsolete) Power of endurance.
- (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Synonyms
- (lowest part): base
- (buttocks, British, euphemistic): sit upon, derriere, ????
- (BDSM, gay): catcher
Antonyms
- (lowest part): top
- (BDSM, gay): top
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? French: bottom
Translations
Verb
bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
- to bottom a chair
- (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
- 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.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- (transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
- (BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
- (gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
- I've never bottomed in my life.
Derived terms
- bottom out
Translations
Adjective
bottom (not comparable)
- The lowest or last place or position.
- Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
Translations
See also
- bottommost
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bottom.
Adjective
bottom (plural bottoms)
- (LGBT, slang) bottom (passive in role)
Synonyms
- passif
Portuguese
Noun
bottom m (plural bottons)
- button (a badge worn on clothes)
- Synonym: botão
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