bottle meaning
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[ˈbɑɾ(ə)l] [ˈbɒtəl] [ˈbɑtəl] [ˈbɑɾl̩] [-ɒtəl] 
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- A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a mouth. By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening which may be as wide as the overall container.
- The bottle has developed over millennia of use, with some of the earliest examples appearing in China, Phoenicia, Rome and Crete. Bottles are often recycled according to the SPI recycling code for the material.
- NounPLbottles
- (Britain dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation.
- (Britain dialectal) A building; house.
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
- The contents of such a container.
- I only drank a bottle of beer.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The baby wants a bottle.
- (Britain, informal) Nerve, courage.
- You don't have the bottle to do that! He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.
- Did you know he's a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
- (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
- (figuratively) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- to drown one's troubles in the bottle
- Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" (song): See, my old man's got a problem. He live[sic] with the bottle; that's the way it is.
- (Britain dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation.
- VerbSGbottlesPRbottlingPT, PPbottled
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- (transitive, Britain) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- (Britain, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- (Britain, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
- (Britain, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
- The place is chock-a-block full of old empty bottles on shelves, a collection from around the world.
- This water is bottled from the spring of the river.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I was so eager to make their bedclothes agreeable and nice, I am afraid I was a bit loose-handed with the starch bottle.
- For today's make, you'll need a good sheet of blue sticky-backed plastic, a pen and a washing-up bottle.
- The woodworks now find utilization for almost every scrap. Pine stumps are changing into turpentine bottles.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of bottle in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en bottles
- en bottled
- en bottleneck
- en bottler
- en bottlers
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "bottle" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.