What does bottle mean

Crossword clues for bottle

bottle

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

▪ 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.

▪ 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.