Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
- noun The quantity that a bottle holds.
- noun A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
- noun Intoxicating liquor.
- noun The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor.
- transitive verb To place in a bottle.
- transitive verb To hold in; restrain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dwelling; a habitation: a word extant (as -bottle, -battle) only in some local English names, as Harbottle, Newbottle, Morbattle.
- To put into bottles for the purpose of preserving or of storing away: as, to
bottle wine or porter. - To store up as in a bottle; preserve as if by bottling; shut in or hold back (colloq. “cork up”), as anger or other strong feeling: usually with up.
- noun A quantity, as of hay or grass, tied or bundled up.
- noun A hollow mouthed vessel of glass, wood, leather, or other material, for holding and carrying liquids.
- noun The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains: as, a bottle of wine or of porter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A bundle, esp. of hay.
- noun A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
- noun The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains.
- noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor.
- noun [Obs.] bottled ale.
- noun a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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. - noun (Bot.) Same as
Bluebottle . - noun a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
- noun (Bot.) the common gourd or calabash (
Lagenaria Vulgaris ), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc. - noun (Bot.) a nutritious fodder grass (
Setaria glauca andSetaria viridis ); -- called alsofoxtail , andgreen foxtail . - noun (Zoöl.) the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
- noun (Bot.) an Australian tree (
Sterculia rupestris ), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. - noun a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A container, typically made of glass and having a tapered neck, used for holding liquids.
- noun The contents of such a container.
- noun A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants
- noun UK, informal
Nerve ,courage . - noun attributive With one's
hair color produced bydyeing . - noun obsolete A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
- verb transitive To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption.
- verb transitive, UK To feed (an infant)
baby formula . - verb UK, slang To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- verb UK, slang To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- verb UK, slang To
pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval. - noun A
dwelling ;habitation . - noun A
building ;house .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a bottle
- noun 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
- verb store (liquids or gases) in bottles
- verb put into bottles
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his _huqqa_ under the suggestive bottle tree (there is something touching in his selecting the shade of a _bottle_ tree: Horace clearly had no _bottle_ tree; or he would never have lain under a strawberry (and cream) tree).
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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This Klein bottle is only a prototype and so won't be there.
Archive 2008-05-01 MadeleineS 2008
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This Klein bottle is only a prototype and so won't be there.
Klein Bottle MadeleineS 2008
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Plaster of Paris equals arris; arris equals Aristotle; Aristotle rhymes with bottle; bottle is short for bottle and glass; glass rhymes with arse.
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This bottle is always emptied before the ketchup in my fridge!
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The general rule for pilots, what they call the bottle to throttle rule is don't drink 24 hours before you fly.
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By putting a piece of phosphorus the size of a pea into a phial, and adding boiling oil until the bottle is a third full, a luminous bottle is formed, for on taking out the cork to admit atmospheric air, the empty space in the phial will become luminous.
Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times 1865
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My resolution was formed, and I soon found an opportunity of falling into conversation with him; and as I took care that my tone should answer the intended purpose, he presently invited me to adjourn, and take what he called a bottle and a bird at the Shakespeare.
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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If you are trying to decide if a certain bottle is going to be as good as advertised, I would recommend using Cork’d or Cellar Tracker, which offer a collection of ratings from various people who have owned or consumed specific wines and noted their tastings.
White wine, red wine, the frontal cortex, spooky store – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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ColombianMonkey (UID#3835) on August 28th, 2009 at 3: 48 am yea my bottle is like 3/4 full
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Container deposit-return legislation – often colloquially referred to as “bottle bills” after the 1971 Oregon Bottle Bill, the earliest American instance of this type of legislation – is present in 10 US states.
New York's canners: the people who survive off a city's discarded cans Cecilia Watt 2020
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His next drinks order arrived in a ceremonial procession, known in the nightclub business as a bottle train.
The secret economics of a VIP party The Economist 2020
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