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bottle

1

[ bot-l ]

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)

, bot·tled, bot·tling.
  1. to put into or seal in a bottle:

    to bottle grape juice.

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

verb phrase

    1. to repress, control, or restrain:

      He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.

    2. to enclose or entrap:

      Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.

bottle

2

[ bot-l ]

noun

, Architecture.

bottle

1

/ ˈbɒtəl /

noun

  1. dialect.
    a bundle, esp of hay


bottle

2

/ ˈbɒtəl /

noun

    1. a vessel, often of glass and typically cylindrical with a narrow neck that can be closed with a cap or cork, for containing liquids
    2. ( as modifier )

      a bottle rack

  1. Also calledbottleful the amount such a vessel will hold
    1. a container equipped with a teat that holds a baby's milk or other liquid; nursing bottle
    2. the contents of such a container

      the baby drank his bottle

  2. short for magnetic bottle
  3. slang.
    nerve; courage (esp in the phrase lose one's bottle )
  4. slang.
    money collected by street entertainers or buskers
  5. full bottle slang.
    full bottle well-informed and enthusiastic about something
  6. the bottle informal.
    the bottle drinking of alcohol, esp to excess

verb

  1. to put or place (wine, beer, jam, etc) in a bottle or bottles
  2. to store (gas) in a portable container under pressure
  3. slang.
    to injure by thrusting a broken bottle into (a person)
  4. slang.
    (of a busker) to collect money from the bystanders

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Other Words From

  • bottle·like adjective
  • well-bottled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bottle1

1325–75; Middle English botel < Anglo-French; Old French bo ( u ) teille < Medieval Latin butticula, equivalent to Late Latin butti ( s ) butt 4 + -cula -cule 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bottle1

C14: from Old French botel , from botte bundle, of Germanic origin

Origin of bottle2

C14: from Old French botaille , from Medieval Latin butticula literally: a little cask, from Late Latin buttis cask, butt 4

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Idioms and Phrases

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

More idioms and phrases containing bottle

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

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Example Sentences

Face masks and constant sanitization are also required, along with spray bottles of disinfectant for everyone who’s working out and checking their temperature before they head outside or touch the equipment.

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I like that the Flash puts the weight of the included bottle on my lower back.

That means running when it’s cool out, bringing a bottle of water to keep them hydrated, and taking frequent breaks.

Chandler says that sherry vinegar is the bottle she reaches for most often.

At this point, 64 were still breastfeeding or getting breastmilk from a bottle.

Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.

That means that Champagne is fermented a second time in the bottle when sealed closed, which naturally produces the bubbles.

If you need to store the bottle in the fridge, let it warm up for a few minutes on the counter before serving.

I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.

He said officers no longer arrest people for merely having an open beer bottle but instead ask them to leave the alcohol behind.

One of the little girls in pigtails was holding him, while Miss Anne administered the feeding-bottle.

An hour later, I heard he was dead: that on his way to his home he had purchased a bottle of laudanum and swallowed the contents!

He thrust one hand into his gold-coloured skirt, and produced a glass bottle full of some very cheap perfume from Europe.

He started a guerilla campaign against the obsession with the aid of the brandy bottle.

We too are in sympathy with those miners who are now faced with only one bottle of champagne a day.

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