different between sup vs bottom

Translingual

Symbol

sup

1. (mathematics) supremum

Synonyms

• (in a lattice) ?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: 'sup

Etymology 1

From Middle English soupen, from Old English s?pan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *s?pan? (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit ??? (s??pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.

Verb

sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

1. To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple

     There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.

Noun

sup (plural sups)

1. A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
   • 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, chapter 8

     A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.

Alternative forms

• soup

Etymology 2

From Middle English soupen, suppen, Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe. More at soup.

Verb

sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

1. To take supper.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.

   • 1879, Bram Stoker, Dracula

     I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.

Translations

Etymology 3

Aphetic form of what's up (“how are you doing?”)

Interjection

sup?

1. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)

   Synonyms: wassup, wudup

Etymology 4

From s- +? up.

Adjective

sup (not comparable)

1. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.

Etymology 5

First syllable of superintendent.

Noun

sup (plural sups)

1. (informal) Superintendent.

Alternative forms

• supe

Etymology 6

First syllable of superior

Noun

sup (plural sups)

1. (mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.

Etymology 7

Noun

sup (plural sups)

1. A stand-up paddleboard

Anagrams

• PSU, PUS, PUs, UPS, UPs, USP, psu, pus, ups

Albanian

Alternative forms

• cup (Gheg)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tsupa, from Proto-Indo-European *?upos (compare English hip, Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sup/

Noun

sup m (indefinite plural supe, definite singular supi, definite plural supet)

1. (anatomy) shoulder

   Synonyms: mushk, shpatull

Declension

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?p? (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish s?p, Lower Sorbian sup, Serbo-Croatian s?p, and Russian ??? (sip).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sup]

Noun

sup m anim

1. vulture

Declension

Derived terms

• orlosup

Further reading

• sup in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sup in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch soep (“soup”), from French soupe, from Latin suppa, from Proto-Germanic *supô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?p?]
• Hyphenation: sup

Noun

sup (first-person possessive supku, second-person possessive supmu, third-person possessive supnya)

1. soup, any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• “sup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

sup m

1. stand up paddleboard

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?p? (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish s?p, Czech sup, Serbo-Croatian s?p, and Russian ??? (sip).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sup/

Noun

sup m

1. vulture (bird)

Declension

Further reading

• sup in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• sup in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Nabi

Noun

sup

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English soup.

Noun

sup

1. soup

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sûp/

Noun

s?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vulture

   Synonyms: lèšin?r, str?vin?r

Declension

References

• “sup” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sup/

Noun

sup m (genitive singular supa, nominative plural supy, genitive plural supov, declension pattern of dub)

1. vulture

Usage notes

The usage of the 2nd declension pattern is limited to fairy tales and children stories.

Declension

Derived terms

• supí

Further reading

• sup in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

sup c

1. a mouthful of liquor (spirits)

   Synonyms: snaps, nubbe, hutt, rackabajsare, pilleknarkare

Declension

Related terms

• supa

Verb

sup

1. imperative of supa.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English soup.

Noun

sup

1. soup

Volapük

Noun

sup (nominative plural sups)

1. soup

Declension

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)

1. 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.

   1. A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.

      Coordinate term: top

   2. Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.

      a soda and a bottom of brandy

2. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

3. The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
4. (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

5. (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
6. The buttocks or anus.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

7. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
8. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
9. An abyss.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

10. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

      We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]

11. (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.

12. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
13. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
14. (gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.

15. (particle physics) A bottom quark.

    Hypernym: flavor

16. 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.

17. (obsolete) Power of endurance.

18. (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)

1. (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]

   to bottom a chair

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
7. (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
8. To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
9. (BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
10. (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)

1. 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)

1. (LGBT, slang) bottom (passive in role)

Synonyms

• passif

Portuguese

Noun

bottom m (plural bottons)

1. button (a badge worn on clothes)

   Synonym: botão