BOTTLE

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

bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle

(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

bottle, bottleful

(noun) the quantity contained in a bottle

bottle

(verb) put into bottles; “bottle the mineral water”

bottle

(verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

bottle (plural bottles)

A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

The contents of such a container.

A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

(British, informal) Nerve, courage.

(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

(printing) the tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

Synonyms

• (for feeding babies): baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US)

• (courage): balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck

Antonyms

• (courage): cowardice

Verb

bottle (third-person singular simple present bottles, present participle bottling, simple past and past participle bottled)

(transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

(transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.

(British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

(British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.

(British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.

(British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Etymology 2

Noun

bottle (plural bottles)

(UK, dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation.

(UK, dialectal) A building; house.

Source: Wiktionary

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Bot"tle, n. Etym: [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]

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. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] Shak.

– Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.

– Bottle fish (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.

– Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.

– Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. Ure.

– Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.

– Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and S. viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.

– Bottle tit (Zoöl.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.

– Bottle tree (Bot.), 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.

Bot"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottled p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling.]

Definition: 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.

Bot"tle, n. Etym: [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.]

Definition: A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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