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.


2. Verb. Store (liquids or gases) in bottles.
Generic synonyms: Store

3. Noun. The quantity contained in a bottle.
Exact synonyms: Bottleful
Generic synonyms: Containerful
Specialized synonyms: Split

4. Verb. Put into bottles. "Bottle the mineral water"
Generic synonyms: Lay, Place, Pose, Position, Put, Set
Derivative terms: Bottler

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.
Exact synonyms: Feeding Bottle, Nursing Bottle
Terms within: Nipple
Generic synonyms: Vessel

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. to put into a bottle (a rigid container) [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]

Medical Definition of Bottle

1. 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. Bottle fish, 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. 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 tubve), used in feeding infants. Origin: OE. Bote, botelle, OF. Botel, bouteille, F. Bouteille, fr. LL. Buticula, dim. Of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle

Bottcher's cells
Bottcher's crystals
Bottcher's ganglion
Bottcher's space
botte
botted
bottega
bottegas
bottes
Botticelli
botties
bottine
bottines
botting
bottle (current term)
bottle (current term)
bottle-cordk
bottle-fed
bottle-feed
bottle-grass
bottle-green
bottle-nose
bottle-nosed dolphin
bottle-nosed whale
bottle-tree
bottlebrush
bottlebrushes
bottlebrush buckeye
bottlecap
bottled

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