Bottle
['bɒt(ə)l] or ['bɑtl]
Definition
(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.
(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.
(noun.) the quantity contained in a bottle.
(verb.) put into bottles; 'bottle the mineral water'.
(verb.) store (liquids or gases) in bottles.
Edited by Jonathan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
(n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
(n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.
Editor: Winthrop
Definition
n. a bundle of hay.—To look for a needle in a bottle of hay to engage in a hopeless search.
n. a hollow vessel for holding liquids: the contents of such a vessel: the habit of drinking.—v.t. to enclose in bottles.—n. Bott′le-chart one which purports to show the track of sealed bottles thrown from ships into the sea.—p.adj. Bott′led enclosed in bottles: shaped or protuberant like a bottle: kept in restraint.—ns. Bott′le-glass a coarse green glass used in the making of bottles; Bott′le-gourd or False Calabash a climbing musky-scented Indian annual whose fruit is shaped like a bottle an urn or a club.—adjs. Bott′le-green dark green in colour like bottle-glass.—Bott′le-head Bott′le-nosed having a rounded prominent head with a short snout as a certain genus of whale.—ns. Bott′le-hold′er one who attends upon a boxer at a prize-fight a backer or supporter generally; Bott′le-imp an imp supposed to be confined in a bottle; Bott′le-wash′er one whose business it is to wash out the bottles a factotum generally.—A three-bottle man one who could drink three bottles without losing his decorum.—To bottle off to draw from the cask and put into bottles; To bottle up (one's wrath &c.) to keep enclosed as in a bottle; To bring up on the bottle to rear an infant artificially rather than by the breast; To pass the bottle to make the drink go round; To pass the bottle of smoke to acquiesce in some falsehood to make pretence.
Edited by Arnold
Unserious Contents or Definition
Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid. You will overcome all obstacles in affairs of the heart, prosperous engagements will ensue. If empty, coming trouble will envelop you in meshes of sinister design, from which you will be forced to use strategy to disengage yourself.
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Examples
- I put the other bottle from under the bed in there too, she said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Get some more port, Bowls, old boy, whilst I buzz this bottle here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Where's the bottle? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When the bottle is nearly full, the operator quickly withdraws it with one hand, and having a cork ready in the other, he puts it in before the water can rush out. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The bottle and jug were again produced, and he mixed a weak draught, and another, and drank both in quick succession. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How Tom, genius-like, struck out new paths, and, relinquishing the old names of the letters, called U _bell_ and P _bottle_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He brought the whiskey in a glass with ice and beside the glass on a tray a small bottle of soda. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We had meters in which there were two bottles of liquid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Heat some stone bottles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Aymo climbed up with Bonello, carrying the cheese and two bottles of wine and his cape. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He had a long sausage, a jar of something and two bottles of wine under his arm. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- So each of the young men drank six bottles, and behold they felt very tired, then, and lay down and slept soundly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Bottled preparations, warious. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- After filtering it is again boiled, and if any scum or impurities appear on the surface they are removed, when the juice is to be bottled, corked tightly, and should be left for one year. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mr. Pickwick paused, bottled up his vengeance, and corked it down. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He quelled, he kept down when he could; and when he could not, he fumed like a bottled storm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And that then they had come to me, and had had bottled porter and sandwiches on the road. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Tell them to put everything they have cold, on the table, and some bottled ale, and let us taste your very best Madeira. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had been drowned in Madeira wine, apparently about the time when it was bottled in Virginia to be sent hither (to London). Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The process of bottling requires great manual dexterity. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Schaumberg & Dillon’s method of preserving fruit juices consists in bottling and sealing the juices, and then heating the bottles to 170 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A bottling apparatus has been invented for facilitating the process; but a man accustomed to bottle by hand can do it more quickly, and with as little waste of gas and water as with a machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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