"bottom on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bottoms on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottoming on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottomed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottomed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "bottom on (third-person singular simple present bottoms on, present participle bottoming on, simple past and past participle bottomed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson:",
          "text": "Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1844, Edward Dorr Griffin, Sermons, Not Before Published, on Various Practical Subjects:",
          "text": "Commutative justice relates to the exchange of one thing for another, and is bottomed on the principle of something for something, or as the lawyers say, quid pro quo.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, William Safire, Mangled Metaphors:",
          "text": "Karen Stimson, director of Largesse, a group that fights sizism, weighed in with this comment to The A.P.: \"Being fat has always meant being downwardly mobile, especially for women. Society discriminates against people of size.\" The phrase is bottomed on people of color, an 18th-century term for \"nonwhites\" enjoying new popularity among those not pigmentally deprived.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ground or base on."
      ],
      "id": "en-bottom_on-en-verb-JQIuxULd",
      "links": [
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "base on",
          "base on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To ground or base on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bottom on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bottoms on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottoming on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottomed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottomed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "bottom on (third-person singular simple present bottoms on, present participle bottoming on, simple past and past participle bottomed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson:",
          "text": "Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1844, Edward Dorr Griffin, Sermons, Not Before Published, on Various Practical Subjects:",
          "text": "Commutative justice relates to the exchange of one thing for another, and is bottomed on the principle of something for something, or as the lawyers say, quid pro quo.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, William Safire, Mangled Metaphors:",
          "text": "Karen Stimson, director of Largesse, a group that fights sizism, weighed in with this comment to The A.P.: \"Being fat has always meant being downwardly mobile, especially for women. Society discriminates against people of size.\" The phrase is bottomed on people of color, an 18th-century term for \"nonwhites\" enjoying new popularity among those not pigmentally deprived.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ground or base on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "base on",
          "base on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To ground or base on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bottom on"
}