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- 1 A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
"Beer is often sold in bottles."
- 2 A dwelling; habitation. UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 3 A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle. obsolete
"I was no ſooner in the middle of the pond, but my horſe vaniſht away, and I ſat vpon a bottle of hey, neuer ſo neare drowning in my life: […]"
- 4 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 wordnet
- 5 The contents of such a container.
"I only drank a bottle of beer."
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- 6 A building; house. UK, dialectal
- 7 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 wordnet
- 8 A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
"The baby wants a bottle."
- 9 the quantity contained in a bottle wordnet
- 10 (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage. British, informal
"You don’t have the bottle to do that!"
- 11 A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing. attributive
"Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde."
- 12 Intoxicating liquor; alcohol. figuratively
"to drown one’s troubles in the bottle"
- 1 To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig. transitive
"This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day."
- 2 put into bottles wordnet
- 3 To feed (an infant) baby formula. British, transitive
"Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him."
- 4 store (liquids or gases) in bottles wordnet
- 5 To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. British, slang
"The rider bottled the big jump."
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- 6 To throw away a leading position. British, slang
"Arsenal bottled the Premier League."
- 7 To strike (someone) with a bottle. British, slang
"He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery."
- 8 To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval. British, slang
"Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival."
- 9 Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times. intransitive
"Closely related to creep is the process of bottling. As you may have noticed from your folded sheet of paper, pages don't merely creep when they're folded — they also rotate slightly. This rotation or bottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper."
Etymology
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.
From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).
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