bottle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  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. noun the quantity contained in a bottle
    bottleful.
  3. 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
    feeding bottle; nursing bottle.
  4. verb store (liquids or gases) in bottles
  5. verb put into bottles
    • bottle the mineral water

WordNet


Bot"tle noun
Etymology
OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.
Definitions
  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. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bot"tle transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bottled present participle & verbal noun Bottling
Definitions
  1. 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.
Bot"tle noun
Etymology
OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.
Definitions
  1. A bundle, esp. of hay. Obs. or Prov. Eng. Chaucer. Shak.

Webster 1913