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Bottle

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Noun

1. bottle

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. bottle, bottleful

the quantity contained in a bottle

3. bottle, feeding bottle, nursing 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

Verb

4. bottle

store (liquids or gases) in bottles

5. bottle

put into bottles

Example Sentences:
'bottle the mineral water'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bottle

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noun
1. 
a. 
a vessel, often of glass and typically cylindrical with a narrow neck that can be closed with a cap or cork, for containing liquids
b. 
(as modifier)
a bottle rack
2. Also called: bottleful
the amount such a vessel will hold
3. 
a. 
a container equipped with a teat that holds a baby's milk or other liquid; nursing bottle
b. 
the contents of such a container
the baby drank his bottle
4.  short for magnetic bottle
5. British slang
nerve; courage (esp in the phrase lose one's bottle)
6. British slang
money collected by street entertainers or buskers
7.  full bottle
8.  the bottle
verb (transitive)
9. 
to put or place (wine, beer, jam, etc) in a bottle or bottles
10. 
to store (gas) in a portable container under pressure
11. slang
to injure by thrusting a broken bottle into (a person)
12. British slang
(of a busker) to collect money from the bystanders
noun
dialect
a bundle, esp of hay

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Bottle

see synonyms of bottle
noun
1. 
a container, esp. for liquids, made of glass, plastic, etc. and having a relatively narrow neck
2. 
the amount that a bottle holds
3. 
milk from an infant's nursing bottle
4. 
alcoholic liquor
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈbottled or ˈbottling
5. 
to put into a bottle or bottles
6. 
to store (a gas, a liquefied gas, etc.) under pressure in a tank or cylinder
noun
British, Dialectal
a bundle, as of hay

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bottle

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n.
1. A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
2. The quantity that a bottle holds.
3. A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
4. Informal
a. Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle.
b. The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle.
tr.v. bot·tled, bot·tling, bot·tles
1. To place in a bottle.
2. To hold in; restrain: bottled up my emotions.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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