Lexic.us

Definition of Bottle

1. 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.

2. Verb. Store (liquids or gases) in bottles.

3. Noun. The quantity contained in a bottle.

4. Verb. Put into bottles. "Bottle the mineral water"

5. 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.

Definition of Bottle

1. n. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

2. 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.

3. n. A bundle, esp. of hay.

Definition of Bottle

1. to put into a bottle (a rigid container) [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]

Medical Definition of Bottle

1. 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. 3. Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles. Bottle fish, 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. 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 tubve), used in feeding infants. Origin: OE. Bote, botelle, OF. Botel, bouteille, F. Bouteille, fr. LL. Buticula, dim. Of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle

Bottcher's cells Bottcher's crystals Bottcher's ganglion Bottcher's space botte botted bottega bottegas bottes Botticelli

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Literary usage of Bottle

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1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"à capsule à vis, bottle with screw cap. — à collections, specimen bottle, ... à cuvette, a bottle having a depression around the base of the neck to catch ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"It is most likely that the Eng. bottle, meaning a vessel of that kind, came to us through the French ; but however that may be, I have little doubt that in ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The following is a typical analysis of high quality bottle-glass: ... bottle moulds are made of cast iron, either in two pieces, hinged together at the base ..."

4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"Those with harder bodies should be dropped into a cyanide bottle or they may be ... The Cyanide bottle.—The cyanide bottle is prepared by taking a large ..."

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