to bottle
- verb
- /ˈbɑːtəl/
- Devoting your life to the vines... and bottling the truth.
- bottled water
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Watch on YouTubeFun fact, after people drink the sewage beer, their urine is bottled as Natty Light.
- Fun fact, after people drink the sewage beer, their urine is bottled as Natty Light.
- But on that day, if you could bottle that I'm I keep meaning to talk to Red Bull.
Examples
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Furthermore, the more you bottle up emotions, the more likely you are to cry at work.
Blog text (5) -
So he started to bottle it and it took off.
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Or he would boil and bottle the water and send it to them to drink.
Blog text (18) -
You can't bottle it up.
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At least you are not bottling up your anger; go ahead, let it out.
Blog text (8) -
Children pick up on those kinds of fears, and then they bottle them up and have nightmares.
Fiction book (1993) -
In Blue Ridge, at least one apple orchard brews and bottles its own apple and peach ciders.
Blog text (18) -
He's gotten a local winery to bottle "Lesser Kestrel wine" with a picture of the endangered raptor on the label.
Academic text (2001) -
Before the event, they decided to bottle the water in user-friendly containers for the guests.
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The chef plans to bottle the homemade sauce and sell it at the local market.
Synonyms
To put water into a container to keep or carry it
Put beer into glass containers for sale or storage
Idioms
- Informal
New ideas put into an old way that do not bring real change
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A container filled with hot water to warm a bed or soothe a part of the body
- Informal
A party game where people sit in a circle and spin a bottle to kiss the person it points to
- Literature
A note put in a bottle and thrown into the sea to be found later
- Informal
A person whose hair is dyed or bleached to look blonde rather than naturally blonde
- Specialized
A device that uses magnets to hold very hot gas for fusion experiments
- US
A law that makes people pay a small deposit for drink containers and get it back when they recycle them
A climbing plant with hard, bottle-shaped fruit used as food or dried to make containers
A container with two walls and empty space between them that keeps drinks hot or cold
- Specialized
A small bottle for collecting and keeping medical samples like urine
- Archaic
A small bottle with a strong smell that helps wake someone who has fainted
A plant from eastern North America with blue or white tube-shaped flowers that stay mostly closed
- Specialized
A lab bottle that passes gas through a liquid to clean the gas or add gas to the liquid
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Etymology
The verb bottle comes from the same old Latin word butticula, meaning a 'small barrel', and it once meant 'put into small containers'. That's why to 'bottle' today is to put a drink or liquid into bottles for storage or sale.