bottle
Plural: bottles
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
- the quantity contained in a bottle
- 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
- 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.
- (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- A dwelling; habitation.
- A building; house.
- A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
Verb
Verb Forms: bottled, bottling, bottles
- To place liquid into a bottle; to restrain or hold back.
- store (liquids or gases) in bottles
- put into bottles
- "bottle the mineral water"
- To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- To throw away a leading position.
- To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
Examples
- Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- Beer is often sold in bottles.
- Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
- He had to BOTTLE up his excitement after spotting a seven-letter word on his rack.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
- He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
- I only drank a bottle of beer.
- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
- The baby wants a bottle.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
- to hit the bottle
- You don’t have the bottle to do that!
Origin / 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 and pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
Synonyms
bottleful, feeding bottle, nursing bottle, baby's bottle, balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
bottle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbottle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bottle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary