The difference between Bottom and Nether

When used as nouns, bottom means the lowest part of anything, whereas nether means oppression.

When used as verbs, bottom means to fall to the lowest point, whereas nether means to bring or thrust down.

When used as adjectives, bottom means the lowest or last place or position, whereas nether means lower.

Nether is also adverb with the meaning: down.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bottom and Nether

  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. Nether as an adjective:

    Lower; under.

    Examples:

    "The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered."

  2. Nether as an adjective:

    Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth's surface.

    Examples:

    "The nether regions."

  1. Nether as an adverb:

    Down; downward.

  2. Nether as an adverb:

    Low; low down.

  1. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland):

    To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

  2. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland):

    To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.

  3. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.

  4. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.

  5. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

  1. Nether as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

  2. Nether as a noun (mining):

    A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

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