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amphora, canteen, container, decanter, ewer, flagon, flask, glass, jug, kit, preserve, restrain

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bot⋅tle

1 [bot-l]

noun, verb, -tled, -tling.

–noun

1.	a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.

2.	the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.

3.	bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.

4.	the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.

–verb (used with object)

5.	to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.

6.	British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.

—Verb phrase

bottle up,

a.	to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.

b.	to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.

—Idiom

8.	hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.

Origin:
1325–75; ME botel < AF; OF bo(u)teille < ML butticula, equiv. to LL butti(s) butt ⁴ + -cula -cule ¹

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Language Translation for : Bottle

Spanish:

botella,

German:

die Flasche,

Japanese:

びん

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bot⋅tle

2 [bot-l]

–noun Architecture.

boltel (def. 2).

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bot·tle (bŏt'l) Pronunciation Key
n.

A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
The quantity that a bottle holds.
A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
Informal
1. Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle.
2. The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle.

tr.v. bot·tled, bot·tling, bot·tles

To place in a bottle.
To hold in; restrain: bottled up my emotions.

[Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis, cask.]
bot'tler n.

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bottle

1346, originally of leather, from O.Fr. boteille, from L.L. butticula dim. of L. buttis "a cask." The verb is first recorded 1641. Bottleneck in the fig. sense of "something obstructing even flow" (of traffic, production, etc.) is from 1896.

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bottle
noun
1.	a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
2.	the quantity contained in a bottle
3.	a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
verb
1.	store (liquids or gases) in bottles
2.	put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"

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bottle

In addition to the idiom beginning with bottle, also see crack a bottle; hit the bottle.

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Bottle

Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]

1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.

Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.

Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.

Bottle fish (Zo["o]l.), a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.

Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.

Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. --Ure.

Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.

Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and S. viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.

Bottle tit (Zo["o]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.

Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.

Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.

Bottle

Bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottledp. pr. & vb. n. Bottling.] To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

Bottle

Bot"tle\, n. [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.] A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. --Shak.

Bottle

a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg. 4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab. 2:15). Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1 Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke 5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine, its intoxicating strength. The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven" (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist likens himself.

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