Definition of At bottom

1. Adverb. In reality. "She is very kind at heart"


Lexicographical Neighbors of At Bottom

at a stand
at a time
at all
at all costs
at all hours
at an equal rate
at any cost
at any expense
at any rate
at arm's length
at bat
at bats
at bay
at bay(p)
at best
at bottom (current term)
at call
at church every time the doors are open
at close range
at cost
at cross-purposes
at daggers drawn
at dark
at death's door
at ease
at ease(p)
at fault
at first
at first bluff
at first blush

Literary usage of At bottom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Sir Boverton Redwood (1896)
"... at end of seven clays atmosphere found explosive at bottom; open hatchway area then increased to Tg- of bottom surface of oil; five days afterwards, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"A sufficient number of the longer carbon sections are united at bottom to ... The hopper a' is then automatically closed at bottom by the re-elevation of ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"In the second D chart the a scale is linear and ranges from 0 at top to +40 at bottom. The D scale is linear and ranges from 5.5 at bottom to 8 at the top. ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Outside the coast we took a series of temperatures, which showed the minimum, not at bottom,, but at a certain depth below the surface. ..."

5. American Book Prices Current (1902)
"Title and a few other leaves cut close at bottom, touching some words of text. 2139 Day (John). WORKS. Edited by AH Bullen. ..."

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