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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bottle
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beer bottle/can (=a bottle/can for beer)
▪ Empty beer cans littered the ground.
a bottle of milk
▪ I accidentally knocked over a bottle of milk.
a bottle of wine
▪ They opened a bottle of wine.
a bottle/can of beer (=containing beer)
▪ The fridge was full of cans of beer.
a bottle/jar of perfume
▪ He gave me a bottle of my favourite perfume.
a gas bottle (=a small container for gas)
▪ The gas bottles need to be stored in a safe place.
a glass bottle/bowl/vase etc
▪ Glass bottles can be recycled very easily.
bottle bank
bottle green
bottle opener
bottle opener
▪ a bottle opener
bottle top/pen top etc
▪ Has anyone seen my pen top?
bottled beer (=served in a bottle)
▪ We sell a wide selection of draught and bottled beers.
bottled water (=water to drink that you buy in bottles)
▪ Sales of bottled water have rocketed.
can/bottle/glass etc of lager
▪ a pint of lager
hot-water bottle
litre bottle/drum/container etc
▪ a litre bottle of wine
milk bottle
▪ Put the empty milk bottles into the crates.
water bottle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
▪ He took the empty bottle and went into the school garden.
▪ I loved to pick through trash piles and collect empty bottles, tin cans with Pretty labels, and discarded magazines.
▪ The almost empty bottle of Scotch was in keeping with Moore, and so was one glass.
▪ As she stood up an empty wine bottle clattered off the bench and rolled down the pavement.
▪ So now the movie houses are taking empty bottles as payment, turning them back in to the bottlers for cash.
▪ In front of each team at a distance of about two yards, place a mirror, a spoon an empty bottle or jar.
▪ Piles of damp clothes lie on the floor next to old pairs of shoes, empty vodka bottles and scraps of paper.
green
▪ Red check document box; green box; bottle of Lait Moussant.
▪ The glint of the green bottle on the glass shelf above the basin.
▪ When the last green bottle accidentally falls, there are no green bottles hanging on the wall.
▪ It was too late, Fon thought, her mind on the green bottle, far too late.
▪ The light deepened till she looked like a ballerina in a green glass bottle.
▪ It comes in a green bottle and that is the major pleasure it affords.
▪ The outside of the green bottle became crusted with frost.
hot
▪ She'd come and give me a hot water bottle.
▪ She has a lid for the pan and a borrowed hot water bottle with her.
▪ And we've no hot water bottles or extra blankets on board.
▪ In the example, no claim in tort would lie if the hot water bottle did not give off enough heat.
▪ A hot water bottle in the small of your back should help.
▪ Try placing a hot water bottle low down on your tummy and another at your back.
▪ One night I promised myself a hot water bottle, a basket of marzipan fruits and a video.
▪ Example Alice bought a hot water bottle from a retailer which did not give off any heat.
large
▪ Virtually all the large bottles here are of thick, opaque blue glass.
▪ A large bottle of Bell's whisky.
▪ He went into an off-licence and bought a large bottle of Bell's.
▪ The witchdoctor poured some milky medicine from a large bottle into a spoon and gave it to me to drink.
▪ A large, teardrop-shaped bottle is the basis of the system we saw.
▪ The Swan fountain pen and inkwell are filled from a large blue bottle of Stephens's ink.
▪ She entered and took from its shelves two large bottles of red wine.
little
▪ The little brown bottle caught my eye again, and putting my cup and saucer down I uncapped and re-examined it.
▪ The set came equipped with chemicals, minerals, and various treated papers all in little square bottles.
▪ Sophia noticed that the tall handsome priest sitting over the other side from her also bought a great many of the little bottles.
▪ I bought a little bottle of Alka-Seltzer and ran home.
▪ The little bottles with a brush on the end of them are also suitable for this job.
▪ A little ink bottle and two pens were fastened to its floor by gold brackets.
▪ I hold the little white bottle.
▪ Sometimes they have little bottles of stuff called Softwash on hotel shelves, which the guests take with them on leaving.
plastic
▪ All you need is a light and a few empty plastic bottles.
▪ A lime-green book cover, a plastic soda bottle, newspapers, a telephone book, a blue Frisbee, something pink.
▪ Keep refrigerated in small plastic bottles until a demonstration.
▪ Stash a plastic spray bottle with a mixture of bleach and water under the sink.
▪ Using tyre tubes and air-filled plastic bottles as life-jackets, they stayed within sight of land and took turns rowing.
▪ Drinks, of course, were a different matter; all liquids simply had to be kept in plastic squeeze bottles.
▪ Alternatively, you can make your own by filling two plastic bottles with water or sand or use cans of beans.
▪ That move is aimed at meeting global demand for plastic bottles.
small
▪ The small brown bottle contained 28 Carbemazapine tablets, described as small and white.
▪ Manny walked over to his bed with a small bottle of aspirin.
▪ The worms can be graded according to size, simply by shaking the harvested worms in some water in a small bottle.
▪ I took the five dollars and bought small bottles of Swank lotion for the others, which smelled as wonderful as his.
▪ On it you will find some packets of chemical powders, a small bottle and a book.
▪ Galvanized metal buckets, filled with ice, can hold beverages such as small bottles of ice tea, juices and water.
▪ He was dressed in clothes that were much too large for him, and in his hand he held a small bottle.
▪ The small bottles will sell at retail for $ 1 or less, which Tran hopes will lure first-time users.
whole
▪ They drank the whole bottle in perfect accord.
▪ Right next to me was a bottle of antihistamines, and I just ate up the whole bottle.
▪ With Caliban it's as if somebody made him drink a whole bottle of whisky.
▪ Or you can take home the whole bottle for $ 370.
▪ He poured a measure into a shallow quaich, but took thought; and held out to Lachlan the whole bottle.
▪ Don't make the baby finish the whole bottle if he doesn't seem to want it.
▪ Sometimes the tunes are ethereal and somnolent like Brian Eno after a whole bottle of Actifed.
▪ I knew a whole bottle was a mistake.
■ NOUN
bank
▪ Perhaps soon there will be battery banks as there are bottle banks.
beer
▪ The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night.
▪ But they had a bucket of beer bottles and everything was fine.
▪ The camera, re-entering the world of normal gravity, dropped hard beside my shoes. Beer bottles were everywhere.
▪ Zhu had a metal pail, Zheng carried three empty beer bottles, and the policewoman held a ladle.
▪ She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles, looking oddly like a bee with broken wings.
▪ The beer bottle played in his big hands like a thimble.
▪ Needless to say, she was not in the chorus as she had legs like inverted beer bottles.
▪ Intellekt claims that any old beer bottle fits the description.
champagne
▪ They took turns with a champagne bottle.
▪ Leyland, 52, later circled the clubhouse, clutching a champagne bottle and hugging players.
▪ And then the champagne bottle, still stupidly held, still half full, slipped and fell.
▪ She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David, 48, who then killed himself.
▪ His colleagues broke open a champagne bottle inside the City Hall to celebrate.
▪ No crass shaker of champagne bottles.
▪ Duclos rattled the empty champagne bottle impatiently against the table-top as he picked them up.
▪ Ladies of the night dancing on tables among the champagne bottles while watched lecherously by older, affluent-looking chaps.
glass
▪ Method: Funnel the grapeseed oil into a dark glass bottle, add the essential oils and shake well.
▪ Officials fear glass bottles could break and injure visitors or, after the show, damage aircraft.
▪ The first was a heap of glass bottles and flasks, all of them covered with dust and cobwebs.
▪ In previous years, all coolers were inspected for glass bottles and alcoholic beverages before visitors entered the viewing area.
▪ These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
▪ What collectors refer to as historical flasks are glass bottles blown into metal molds between about 1815 and 1870.
▪ In this bin is placed tin cans, washed and flattened, hard plastics and glass bottles.
▪ Method: Funnel the distilled water and cider vinegar into a dark glass bottle, add the essences and shake well.
milk
▪ Several residents have reported that their milk bottles have been torn open by birds.
▪ Glasses and milk bottles rattled on the counter.
▪ Doyle was flung back across the table, a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest.
▪ Not just the clink of milk bottles, but more strangely, the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential.
▪ Albert: Things ... like going around smashing milk bottles.
▪ He can do his gallivanting in the daylight hours with or without milk bottles.
▪ On the table in the milk bottle was the daffodil he'd picked.
▪ Over all this went a soft metal lid, similar to a modern milk bottle top.
top
▪ Over all this went a soft metal lid, similar to a modern milk bottle top.
▪ Opening trick: stop nail polish bottle tops from sticking by smearing the grooves with some Vaseline.
▪ The habit of opening milk bottle tops spread through several species of birds by an analogous cultural process.
water
▪ In the example, no claim in tort would lie if the hot water bottle did not give off enough heat.
▪ She has a lid for the pan and a borrowed hot water bottle with her.
▪ Take the frozen water bottle, remove the lid, invert and rest on the compost towards the centre of the plants.
▪ Out tumbled a water bottle and three children.
▪ Agnes hastily passed her the water bottle.
▪ Families are advised to bring comfortable walking shoes, water bottles, sunscreen and snacks to the site.
whisky
▪ The vinegar - one plain and one with chilli - comes in whisky bottles.
▪ Instead he reached for the whisky bottle.
▪ Harriet pushed back the whisky bottle and poured out two sherries.
▪ Put away the whisky bottle, unlock the doors and open the windows.
▪ Jackknifed over the whisky bottle, Barry listened to the radio commentary in closing-time light.
▪ A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women.
▪ But put it in a Scotch Whisky bottle, and the tax is 19.81p.
■ VERB
bring
▪ The first woman to reply told me to bring a bottle of wine.
▪ They sent Gitler to the kitchen and brought another bottle of wine.
▪ She brought out a bottle of red wine from the cupboard.
▪ We must have forgotten to bring the gas bottle.
▪ He brought out the bottle and the plastic cups.
▪ Sergio had brought a bottle of wine.
▪ He brought the bottle over to the stove and poured him-self another shot.
drink
▪ It was not unusual for him, unaided, to drink two bottles of wine in as many hours.
▪ Meanwhile, he was passed out in his room, having drunk an entire bottle of Scotch alone.
▪ They ate out there too and drank one of the bottles of wine they had brought.
▪ Into the picture walked a man drinking from a quart bottle of beer partially concealed in a brown paper bag.
▪ Tam drank, lowered the bottle, and examined the contents.
▪ She drank from bottles hidden in the bathroom, in the closet, or under the bed.
▪ They drank the whole bottle in perfect accord.
▪ She was sitting at her desk in the living room, fiddling with a pencil and drinking from a bottle of beer.
hit
▪ He was hoping to hit bottles he had placed on the roof of the garage opposite.
▪ The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles.
▪ Some nights he'd hit the vodka bottle and I'd be crying and begging him to stop drinking.
▪ So that ruins your idea that I was hit with the bottle standing beside the bed.
▪ His 1954 marriage to Born Free star Virginia McKenna broke up and he hit the bottle.
▪ Instead he hit the bottle and blamed her for it.
pass
▪ They were passing a bottle back and forth between them.
▪ As I became older, my father would drink his beer and occasionally pass the bottle to me.
▪ Agnes hastily passed her the water bottle.
▪ He took three large swallows and passed the bottle to his wife.
▪ Their hands touched as she passed him the bottle.
▪ Somebody passed a bottle of rotgut, the bottom of it.
▪ He had hinted that it might be kind to pass the empty bottle of Scotch over when he'd drunk it.
▪ The soldiers huddled under the oak tree, passing around a bottle.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bottled water/beer etc
▪ But if you are having difficulties, I suggest you drink only bottled water and avoid salads.
▪ Enjoy with your Tandoori special fine wines, draught or bottled beer.
▪ Hasn't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap?
▪ It was supposed to be bottled water, but Converse knew for a fact that the porter filled it from the tap.
▪ Only drink bottled water - check the seal hasn't been broken - and use it to clean your teeth.
▪ Others chat about the supposed late-night spotting of a large rat dragging a six-pack of bottled water across the warehouse floor.
▪ People are paying more for bottled water than they are for gasoline.
▪ Wide range of wines, whiskies and continental bottled beers.
chief cook and bottle washer
crack open a bottle
hit the bottle
▪ His 1954 marriage to Born Free star Virginia McKenna broke up and he hit the bottle.
▪ Instead he hit the bottle and blamed her for it.
kill a beer/bottle of wine etc
let the genie out of the bottle
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you want me to give Kayla her bottle?
▪ Egon managed to drink half a bottle of schnapps that night.
▪ I only want one glass, not a whole bottle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A bottle of Trazadone, an anti-depressant medicine, was in the cabin.
▪ It was time for a bit of bottle, not for knocking knees.
▪ On the table in the milk bottle was the daffodil he'd picked.
▪ Plastic bags can choke animals and broken bottles can cut them.
▪ The genie is out of the bottle.
▪ They found several oil bottles in his car of the same brand as one found at the starting point of the fire.
▪ We ended up with about a dozen assorted gin, whisky and stout bottles.
▪ We took our bottles of beer.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ They would see the anti-nuclear movement as having bottled out.
▪ Here's what the show left out: The rebels originally planned to invade Ulster but bottled out.
▪ But when he goes for a test, he bottles out and leaves the hospital.
up
▪ Talking to some one about how she was feeling and not bottling up her worries. 3.
▪ House members saw a need to move quickly to avoid having the legislation bottled up by possible impeachment proceedings.
▪ He bottled up what had happened at Changi.
▪ Elizabeth Dole, on the other hand, tends to keep her own moderate views bottled up inside.
▪ They will expect you to bottle up your inner uncertainty, whatever it is about.
▪ You keep everything bottled up inside of you.
▪ She couldn't possibly keep a gigantic secret like that bottled up inside her.
▪ No bottling up for me; no turning the other cheek for Walt.
■ NOUN
water
▪ In a test last year, tasters preferred London tap water to bottled mineral waters.
▪ But they have no belongings with them, no day packs, no water bottles for the trek across the desert.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bottled water/beer etc
▪ But if you are having difficulties, I suggest you drink only bottled water and avoid salads.
▪ Enjoy with your Tandoori special fine wines, draught or bottled beer.
▪ Hasn't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap?
▪ It was supposed to be bottled water, but Converse knew for a fact that the porter filled it from the tap.
▪ Only drink bottled water - check the seal hasn't been broken - and use it to clean your teeth.
▪ Others chat about the supposed late-night spotting of a large rat dragging a six-pack of bottled water across the warehouse floor.
▪ People are paying more for bottled water than they are for gasoline.
▪ Wide range of wines, whiskies and continental bottled beers.
chief cook and bottle washer
let the genie out of the bottle
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ wine bottled in Oregon
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She couldn't possibly keep a gigantic secret like that bottled up inside her.
▪ They will expect you to bottle up your inner uncertainty, whatever it is about.
▪ Try not to bottle up emotions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bottle

Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]

  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.

    Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.

    Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.

    Bottle fish (Zo["o]l.), 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.

    Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.

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

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

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

    Bottle tit (Zo["o]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.

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

    Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.

Bottle

Bottle \Bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottledp. pr. & vb. n. Bottling.] 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.

Bottle

Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.] A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Chaucer.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bottle

mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c.

bottle

1640s, from bottle (n.). Related: Bottled; bottling.

Wiktionary
bottle

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context UK dialectal or obsolete English) A dwelling; habitation. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A building; house. Etymology 2

alt. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. n. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also ''fig.'' 2 (context transitive British English) To feed (an infant) baby formul

  1. 3 (context British slang English) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. 4 (context British slang English) To strike (someone) with a bottle. 5 (context British slang English) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

WordNet
bottle
  1. n. glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle

  2. the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottleful]

bottle
  1. v. store (liquids or gases) in bottles

  2. put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"

Wikipedia
Bottle

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. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminium or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink, and chemicals. A device applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed an external bottle cap, closure, or internal stopper. A bottle can also be sealed by a conductive "innerseal" by using induction sealing.

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. Some regions have a legally mandated deposit which is refunded after returning the bottle to the retailer.

Bottle (song)

"Bottle" is the second single by the Australian alternative rock band the Doug Anthony All Stars, released in 1990. It is the last single from their only studio album Icon.

Bottle (web framework)

Bottle is a WSGI micro web-framework for the Python programming language. It is designed to be fast, simple and lightweight, and is distributed as a single file module with no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. The same module runs with Python 2.5+ and 3.x.

It offers request dispatching (routes) with URL parameter support, templates, key-value database, a built-in web server and adapters for many third-party WSGI/HTTP-server and template engines.

It is designed to be lightweight, and to allow development of web applications easily and quickly.

Usage examples of "bottle".

American, from his accent, and Eurasian by the odd combination of slanted eyes that were a bright bottle green color.

He followed ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL167 with an antistaphylococcal injection and finally handed over a sauce bottle filled to the rim with acriflavine solution.

Its efficacy may be increased in this disease by adding to each bottle one ounce of the acetate of potash, and, when thus modified, it may be administered in the same manner as if no addition had been made to it.

Zombies, several bottles of that disgusting lemon alcopop and a rum and Coke.

Sally thought of Diamond, huddled down in the front of the Alfa, and bought the largest bottle of Chivas the meager contents of his wallet could afford.

They had bought two bottles of alk in the commissary, a brand neither had been able to afford.

I followed it until I got to the grandly named Recycling Center, which, in fact, was three galvanized dustbins for plastic bottles, glass and aluminium cans, and clambered over.

She led the way into the dining-room, where the Castilian Amoroso bottle and the medicine glass were standIng on the table all ready.

When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.

Colonel, fix a cloth over his nose and attempt to regulate the flow of the anesthetic from the bottle into a very slow drip.

Glumly he dug the large bottle out of his pocket, pried off the lid, and poured a fistful of antacid tablets into his palm.

He reached for the bottle of liquid antacid that sat on the dresser, opened it, tilted it, and drank deeply.

Remembering the alarm and what it signaled, she leaned through the car window, grabbed her black leather Chanel purse off the car seat, pulled an antacid bottle from its depths, and popped two of the tablets into her mouth.

How many weeks I laid there blown right up the gut watching that bottle of plasma run down tubes stuck in me anyplace they could get one in?

In the kitchen they found some grapes, a box of crackers, and a jar of apple butter, as well as a bottle of water that the Squalors used for making aqueous martinis but that the Baudelaires would use to quench their thirst during their long climb.