The difference between Bottom and Depth

When used as nouns, bottom means the lowest part of anything, whereas depth means the vertical distance below a surface.

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 Bottom and Depth

  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."

  1. Depth as a noun:

    the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

    Examples:

    "Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay."

    "synonyms: deepness lowness"

  2. Depth as a noun:

    the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

  3. Depth as a noun (figuratively):

    the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

    Examples:

    "The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone."

    "The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated."

    "We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge."

  4. Depth as a noun:

    lowness

    Examples:

    "the depth of a sound"

  5. Depth as a noun (computing, colors):

    the total palette of available colors

  6. Depth as a noun (arts, photography):

    the property of appearing three-dimensional

    Examples:

    "The depth of field in this picture is amazing."

  7. Depth as a noun (literary, usually plural):

    the deepest part

    Examples:

    "The burning ship finally sunk into the depths."

  8. Depth as a noun (literary, usually plural):

    a very remote part.

    Examples:

    "Into the depths of the jungle..."

    "In the depths of the night,"

  9. Depth as a noun:

    the most severe part

    Examples:

    "in the depth of the crisis"

    "in the depths of winter"

  10. Depth as a noun (logic):

    the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content

  11. Depth as a noun (horology):

    a pair of toothed wheels which work together

  12. Depth as a noun (aeronautics):

    the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface

  13. Depth as a noun (statistics):

    the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values

  14. Depth as a noun:

    Ordered Batch of 9 Values

  15. Depth as a noun:

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  16. Depth as a noun:

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