Background and Bottom

noun

• A person's social heritage: previous experience or training.
  • usage: "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
• The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.
  • usage: "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
  • synonyms: ground
• Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem.
  • usage: "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
  • synonyms: background knowledge
• Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured.
  • usage: "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
  • synonyms: background signal
• Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation.
  • usage: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
• The state of the environment in which a situation exists.
  • usage: "you can't do that in a university setting"
  • synonyms: setting, scope
• Computer science. ( the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear)
  • synonyms: desktop, screen background
• Scenery hung at back of stage.
  • synonyms: backdrop, backcloth

verb

• Understate the importance or quality of.
  • usage: "he played down his royal ancestry"
  • synonyms: play down, downplay

• (n.) Ground in the rear or behind or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground or the ground in front.
• (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement or out of sight.
• (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
• (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.

noun

• The lower side of anything.
  • synonyms: underside, undersurface
• The lowest part of anything.
  • usage: "they started at the bottom of the hill"
• The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
  • usage: "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing"
  • synonyms: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
• The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat.
  • synonyms: bottom of the inning
• A depression forming the ground under a body of water.
  • usage: "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
  • synonyms: bed
• Low-lying alluvial land near a river.
  • synonyms: bottomland
• A cargo ship.
  • usage: "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
  • synonyms: freighter, merchantman, merchant ship

verb

• Provide with a bottom or a seat.
  • usage: "bottom the chairs"
• Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom.
• Come to understand.
  • synonyms: penetrate, fathom

adjective

• Situated at the bottom or lowest position.
  • usage: "the bottom drawer"
• The lowest rank.
  • usage: "bottom member of the class"

• (n.) The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane or a page.
• (v.i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
• (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
• (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
• (v.t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
• (n.) An abyss.
• (v.t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
• (v.t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
• (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
• (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
• (n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
• (v.t.) To reach or get to the bottom of.
• (n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
• (n.) The fundament; the buttocks.
• (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

• Name Meaning: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Bottom, a weaver, acts as Pyramus in the play within the play
• Name Origin: Shakespearean

Bottom refers to the base support level for market prices of any type. Also used in the context of securities to refer to the lowest market price of a security during a specific time-frame.