bottle
1a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.
bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.
the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.
to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.
British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
bottle up,
to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
Idioms about bottle
hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
Origin of bottle
1Other words from bottle
- bot·tle·like, adjective
- well-bottled, adjective
Other definitions for bottle (2 of 2)
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How to use bottle in a sentence
It houses more than 450,000 bottles of 15,000 elixirs within its collection valued at 25 million euros in 2009.
A number of bottles and other debris came down upon the demonstrators and cops on the roadway from the pedestrian walkway above.
Because of an error, there were more of the blue bottles than I could use in the years left me.
The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.
Customers can purchase cold beer at full price or warm bottles of beer at retail prices to take home.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He could go and live over in the Latin Quarter—that 's the desire of his heart—and think of nothing but old bottles.
Confidence | Henry JamesFat-droplets are most frequently derived from unclean bottles or oiled catheters.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAll stains and many reagents are best kept in small dropping bottles.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA hardened dealer once went near a large meeting of men with a wagon load of bottles containing cold tea.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesI dont want him to be a doctor and have bottles in all his pockets and smell of medicine like father and Dr. Lake.
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British Dictionary definitions for bottle (1 of 2)
/ (ˈbɒtəl) /
a vessel, often of glass and typically cylindrical with a narrow neck that can be closed with a cap or cork, for containing liquids
(as modifier): a bottle rack
Also called: bottleful the amount such a vessel will hold
a container equipped with a teat that holds a baby's milk or other liquid; nursing bottle
the contents of such a container: the baby drank his bottle
short for magnetic bottle
British slang nerve; courage (esp in the phrase lose one's bottle)
British slang money collected by street entertainers or buskers
full bottle Australian slang well-informed and enthusiastic about something
the bottle informal drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
to put or place (wine, beer, jam, etc) in a bottle or bottles
to store (gas) in a portable container under pressure
slang to injure by thrusting a broken bottle into (a person)
British slang (of a busker) to collect money from the bystanders
Origin of bottle
1- See also bottle out, bottle up
British Dictionary definitions for bottle (2 of 2)
/ (ˈbɒtəl) /
dialect a bundle, esp of hay
Origin of bottle
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with bottle
In addition to the idiom beginning with bottle
- bottle up
also see:
- crack a bottle
- hit the bottle
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