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| bottom line |
| 1. n. (accounting) The final balance; the amount of money or profit left after everything has been tallied. |
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| 2. n. The summary or result; the most important information |
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| The bottom line is that there simply are not enough hours in the day to finish all there is to do. |
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| bottom |
| 1. n. The lowest part of anything. |
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| Footers appear at the bottoms of pages. |
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| 2. n. (UK, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. |
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| lack bottom |
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| 3. n. (UK, US) A valley, often used in place names. |
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| line |
| 1. n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. |
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| The arrow descended in a curved line. |
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| 2. n. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness. |
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| 3. n. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure. |
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| 4. n. (graph theory) An edge of a graph. |
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