bottle : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a bottle that holds beer
  

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• bottled ale. Obs. Shak.

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• noun a place where bottles can be deposited for recycling
  

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• noun a statute that would require merchants to reclaim used bottles
  

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• a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.

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• noun a collection of bottles
  
  • her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window
• noun the activity of collecting bottles
  
  • bottle collection is a hobby of hers
• noun collecting bottles for reuse
  

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• noun the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
  cork.
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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.

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• . (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.

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• noun gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all
  blind gentian; Gentiana andrewsii; closed gentian.
  

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• a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. Ure.

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• noun Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
  calabash; Lagenaria siceraria.
  

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• (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.

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• noun European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed
  green foxtail; Setaria viridis; rough bristlegrass; bottle grass; green bristlegrass.
  

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• (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and S. viridis); called also foxtail, and green foxtail.

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• noun dark to moderate or greyish green
  

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Bot"tle green`

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1. A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

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• noun an opener for removing caps or corks from bottles
  

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• noun a bottle opener that pulls corks
  corkscrew.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the European long-tailed titmouse; so called from the shape of its nest.

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• noun an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
  bottle tree.
  

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• (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.

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• verb control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
  inhibit; suppress.
  

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• adjective (of an infant) given milk from a bottle
  

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• noun European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed
  green foxtail; Setaria viridis; rough bristlegrass; bottle grass; green bristlegrass.
  

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• adjective satellite of a dark to moderate greyish green color
  

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Bot"tle-nose` noun

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(Zoöl.)

1. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
2. The puffin.

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Bot"tle-nosed` adjective

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1. Having the nose bottleshaped, or large at the end. Dickens.

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• noun any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
  bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose.
  

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• noun northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
  bottlenose; bottlenose whale; Hyperoodon ampullatus.
  

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• adjective satellite shaped like a bottle
  

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• noun an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
  bottle tree.
  

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• noun hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure
  liquefied petroleum gas.
  

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• noun drinking water (often spring water) that is put into bottles and offered for sale
  

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• noun a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps
  

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• noun a bottle that holds catsup
  catsup bottle.
  

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• an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel.

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• 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; bottle.
  

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• . See under Bottle.

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• a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tubve), used in feeding infants.

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• noun a stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body
  hot-water bag.
  

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• noun a bottle of ink
  inkpot.
  

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• a stout bottle made of thick dark-colored glass.

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• noun a bottle that holds catsup
  catsup bottle.
  

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• noun a closed surface with only one side; formed by passing one end of a tube through the side of the tube and joining it with the other end
  

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• noun container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions
  

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• 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; bottle.
  

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• noun a small bottle for holding pills
  

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• noun a bottle for holding soft drinks
  pop bottle.
  

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• a bottle for holding aërated water, which is driven out through a bent tube in the neck by the gas within the bottle when a valve in the tube is opened; called also gazogene, and siphoid.

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• noun a bottle containing smelling salts
  

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• a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.

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• noun a bottle for holding soft drinks
  pop bottle.
  

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• noun a bottle for holding urine specimens
  

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• noun a game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning
  

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• a feeding bottle. See under Bottle.

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• noun vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks
  thermos; thermos flask.
  

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• to open the bottle and drink its contents.

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• (Chem.), a bottle or retort having a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.

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• noun flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures
  vacuum flask.
  

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• . (Chem.) (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. (b) A washing bottle. See under Washing.

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• (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate upon a filter, etc.

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• noun a bottle for holding water
  

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• noun a bottle for holding whiskey
  

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• noun a bottle for holding wine
  

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Woulfe" bot`tle noun

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1. (Chem.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.

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