bottom vs spire

bottom

noun
  • An abyss. 

  • Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil. 

  • The far end of somewhere. 

  • A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. 

  • A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity. 

  • The buttocks or anus. 

  • Low-lying land; a valley or hollow. 

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

  • A cargo vessel, a ship. 

  • A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men. 

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

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

  • The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect. 

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

  • The lowest part of anything. 

  • Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water. 

  • The lowest part of a container. 

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

verb
  • To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water). 

  • To establish or found (something) on or upon. 

  • To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. 

  • To reach the bottom of something. 

  • To fall to the lowest point. 

  • To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. 

  • To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. 

  • To furnish (something) with a bottom. 

  • To be anally penetrated in gay sex. 

adj
  • Relating to the genitals. 

  • The lowest or last place or position. 

spire

noun
  • A spiral. 

  • A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. 

  • One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. 

  • A young shoot of a plant; a spear. 

  • A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting. 

  • The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. 

  • The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. 

  • Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. 

  • A sharp or tapering point. 

verb
  • to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. 

  • To furnish with a spire. 

  • To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. 

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