bottle

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

bottles

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

bottle

past (v2)

bottled

past participle (v3)

bottled

present participle

bottling

3rd person singular

bottles

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 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. 2.The contents of such a container.

   • I only drank a bottle of beer.

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

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

4. 4.(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.(informal)

   • 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.
   • He told me I didn’t have the bottle to take them, so I told him I did and he handed them to me one by one and I swallowed them.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To feed (an infant) baby formula.

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

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

   • The rider bottled the big jump.

3. 3.To throw away a leading position.(slang)

   • Arsenal bottled the Premier League.

4. 4.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.

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Uncommon

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