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Definition of Bottle
1. 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.
Terms within: Bottlecap, Mouth
Generic synonyms: Vessel
2. Verb. Store (liquids or gases) in bottles.
3. Noun. The quantity contained in a bottle.
4. Verb. Put into bottles. "Bottle the mineral water"
5. 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.
Definition of Bottle
1. n. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
2. v. t. 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.
3. n. A bundle, esp. of hay.
Definition of Bottle
1. Noun. (context: UK dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation. ¹
2. Noun. (context: UK dialectal) A building; house. ¹
3. Noun. A container, typically made of glass and having a tapered neck, used for holding liquids. ¹
4. Noun. The contents of such a container. ¹
5. Noun. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants ¹
6. Noun. (British informal) Nerve, courage. ¹
7. Noun. (attributive of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. ¹
9. Verb. (transitive British) To feed (an infant) baby formula. ¹
10. Verb. (British slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. ¹
11. Verb. (British slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bottle
1. to put into a bottle (a rigid container) [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Medical Definition of Bottle
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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. Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle
Literary usage of Bottle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"à capsule à vis, bottle with screw cap. — à collections, specimen bottle, ...
à cuvette, a bottle having a depression around the base of the neck to catch ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"It is most likely that the Eng. bottle, meaning a vessel of that kind, came to
us through the French ; but however that may be, I have little doubt that in ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The following is a typical analysis of high quality bottle-glass: ... bottle moulds
are made of cast iron, either in two pieces, hinged together at the base ..."
4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"Those with harder bodies should be dropped into a cyanide bottle or they may be
... The Cyanide bottle.—The cyanide bottle is prepared by taking a large ..."
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