[syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle]
VERB (2)
1. store (liquids or gases) in bottles;
2. put into bottles;
- Example: "bottle the mineral water"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [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.
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2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains;
as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in
the bottle.
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Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
of a compound.
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Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
interior of bottles.
Bottle fish (Zool.), 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 Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail,
and green foxtail.
Bottle tit (Zool.), 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 tube), used in
feeding infants.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bottle \Bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottledp. pr. & vb. n.
Bottling.]
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte;
cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.]
A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
--Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bottle
n 1: 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: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle,
bottleful]
3: 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 [syn: bottle, feeding bottle,
nursing bottle]
v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles
2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"