bottlenoun詞源 1/ˈbɒt.l̩/

• 1

  A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

  • Beer is often sold in bottles.
  • 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.
• 2

  The contents of such a container.

  • I only drank a bottle of beer.
• 3

  A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

  • The baby wants a bottle.
  • With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.
• 4

  informal(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") 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.
• 5

  A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

  • Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
• 6

  Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

  • to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
  • to hit the bottle

bottleverb詞源 1/ˈbɒt.l̩/

• 1

  To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

  • This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
  • The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
• 2

  To feed (an infant) baby formula.

  • Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
• 3

  slangTo refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

  • The rider bottled the big jump.
• 4

  slanghobbieslifestylesportsTo throw away a leading position.

  • Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
• 5

  slangTo strike (someone) with a bottle.

  • He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
• 6

  slangTo pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

  • Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
• 7

  mediaprintingpublishingOf pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

  • Closely related to creep is the process of bottling. As you may have noticed from your folded sheet of paper, pages don't merely creep when they're folded — they also rotate slightly. This rotation or bottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper.

bottlenoun詞源 2/ˈbɒt.l̩/

• 1

  obsoletedialectalA dwelling; habitation.

• 2

  dialectalA building; house.

bottlenoun詞源 3/ˈbɒt.l̩/

• 1

  obsoleteA bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

  • I was no ſooner in the middle of the pond, but my horſe vaniſht away, and I ſat vpon a bottle of hey, neuer ſo neare drowning in my life: […]
  • […]Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.