Second-string and Bottom

adjective

• Being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team.
  • usage: "a second-string pitcher"

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.