The difference between Backside and Bottom

When used as nouns, backside means the back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially an outhouse, whereas bottom means the lowest part of anything.


Bottom is also verb with the meaning: to fall to the lowest point.

Bottom is also adjective with the meaning: the lowest or last place or position.

check bellow for the other definitions of Backside and Bottom

  1. Backside as a noun:

    The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly: The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially an outhouse. A person's buttocks. The back side of a page: a verso.

    Examples:

    "The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti."

    "Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside."

  2. Backside as a noun:

    The reverse or opposite of anything.

  1. Bottom as a noun:

    The lowest part of anything.

    Examples:

    "Footers appear at the bottoms of pages."

  2. Bottom as a noun (uncountable, British, slang):

    Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

    Examples:

    "lack bottom"

  3. Bottom as a noun (British, US):

    A valley, often used in place names.

    Examples:

    "Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?"

  4. Bottom as a noun:

    The buttocks or anus.

  5. Bottom as a noun (nautical):

    A cargo vessel, a ship.

  6. Bottom as a noun (nautical):

    Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

  7. Bottom as a noun (baseball):

    The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

  8. Bottom as a noun (BDSM):

    A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

  9. Bottom as a noun (LGBT, slang):

    A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.

  10. Bottom as a noun (physics):

    A bottom quark.

  11. Bottom as a noun (often, figuratively):

    The lowest part of a container.

  12. Bottom as a noun:

    A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

  13. Bottom as a noun:

    The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

  14. Bottom as a noun:

    An abyss.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  15. Bottom as a noun (obsolete):

    Power of endurance.

    Examples:

    "a horse of a good bottom"

  16. Bottom as a noun (obsolete):

    Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Johnson"

  17. Bottom as a noun (usually: [[bottoms]] or [[bottomland]]):

    Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

  1. Bottom as a verb:

    To fall to the lowest point.

  2. Bottom as a verb:

    To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.

  3. Bottom as a verb (intransitive):

    To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.

  4. Bottom as a verb (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.

  5. Bottom as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

  6. Bottom as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish with a bottom.

    Examples:

    "to bottom a chair"

  7. Bottom as a verb (intransitive):

    To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

  8. Bottom as a verb (intransitive):

    To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

    Examples:

    "I've never bottomed in my life."

  1. Bottom as an adjective:

    The lowest or last place or position.

    Examples:

    "Those files should go on the bottom shelf."