'Bottle' definitions:

Definition of 'bottle'

(from WordNet)
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
The quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful]
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 [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle]
verb
Store (liquids or gases) in bottles
verb
Put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"

Definition of 'Bottle'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.]
  • 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. [1913 Webster]
  • Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
  • Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
  • Bottle fish (Zool.), 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. --Ure.
  • 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 Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
  • Bottle tit (Zool.), 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.
  • Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bottle'

From: GCIDE
  • Bottle \Bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottledp. 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bottle'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] --Chaucer. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'bottle'

From: Easton
  • Bottle a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg. 4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab. 2:15).
  • Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1 Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke 5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine, its intoxicating strength.
  • The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven" (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist likens himself.

Synonyms of 'bottle'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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