Etymology : Middle English botel, from Middle French bouteille, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis cask
Pronunciation : 'bä-t
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Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. container for holding liquids. put in a bottle.
2. courage, confidence: "Johnny's scared, he's lost his bottle ".
3. to smash a bottle into a person's face, very often a beer bottle after a drinking spree. 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.]bottle \bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. bottled p. 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.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.].
4. a hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
5. the contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
6. 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.]bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.bottle fish (zo?l.), 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.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 (zo?l.), 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.
7. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware , with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
8. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
9. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
10. 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.
11. A bundle, esp. of hay. glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle the quantity contained in a bottle put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water" store in bottles.
12. 1. A bottle is a glass or plastic container in which drinks and other liquids are kept. Bottles are usually round with straight sides and a narrow top. There were two empty beer bottles on the table He was pulling the cork from a bottle of wine. Victorian scent bottles. A bottle of something is an amount of it contained in a bottle. He had drunk half a bottle of whisky.
13. To bottle a drink or other liquid means to put it into bottles after it has been made. This is a large truck which has equipment to automatically bottle the wine. bottled water.
14. A bottle is a drinking container used by babies. It has a special rubber part at the top through which they can suck their drink. see also:
bottled, feeding bottle, hot-water bottle, water bottle.
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