bottle
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- noun
- /ˈbɑːtəl/
- Every night, I fill a bottle with warm milk for my baby before bedtime.
- baby bottles
- bottle-fed
- milk bottle
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Watch on YouTubeBut fingers crossed we can make this breastfeeding and pumping and bottle feeding thing work.
- But fingers crossed we can make this breastfeeding and pumping and bottle feeding thing work.
- And inside that baby's bottle is a a plastic bag.
- So all the sperm from the artificial vagina drains into the baby bottle and into the bag inside.
Examples
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This little child was asleep with a baby bottle of milk laying beside him.
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We generally don't deal with bottle feeding kittens.
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Look, we're going to give her her first ever bottle of regular milk.
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So this baby bottle has been modified slightly.
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Of course not! Rina got up and pulled the baby bottle out of warm water.
Fiction book (1995) -
But fingers crossed we can make this breastfeeding and pumping and bottle feeding thing work.
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So, here's the diaper bag, his diapers, bottles, toys, he should be fine.
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Around 1895, Newsholme began to suspect that bottle-feeding, as opposed to breastfeeding, was the culprit for fatal infant diarrhea.
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She prefers to drink formula from a bottle instead of breastfeeding.
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I always carry an extra bottle in the diaper bag for when we're out.
Synonyms
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A bottle used to hold milk for feeding babies
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A small bottle with a soft nipple for giving milk or formula to babies
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A bottle with a soft nipple used to feed babies milk or formula
Idioms
- Informal
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New ideas put into an old way that do not bring real change
Compounds
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A container filled with hot water to warm a bed or soothe a part of the body
- Informal
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A party game where people sit in a circle and spin a bottle to kiss the person it points to
- Literature
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A note put in a bottle and thrown into the sea to be found later
- Informal
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A person whose hair is dyed or bleached to look blonde rather than naturally blonde
- Specialized
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A device that uses magnets to hold very hot gas for fusion experiments
- US
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A law that makes people pay a small deposit for drink containers and get it back when they recycle them
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A climbing plant with hard, bottle-shaped fruit used as food or dried to make containers
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A container with two walls and empty space between them that keeps drinks hot or cold
- Specialized
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A small bottle for collecting and keeping medical samples like urine
- Archaic
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A small bottle with a strong smell that helps wake someone who has fainted
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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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bottle for a baby's feeding cup comes from the same old Latin root butticula, meaning a 'small barrel' or 'cask', so it simply meant a small container for milk. That's why a baby 'bottle' is the small thing used to feed infants.