bottle
- noun
- /ˈbɑːtəl/
- Fill the spray bottle with water and screw back the top.
- a bottle of water
- a bottle of wine
- two bottles
And as a matter of fact, this is a bottle of arterial solution.
- And as a matter of fact, this is a bottle of arterial solution.
- I got a huge bottle of Embrylise as well.
- And a quart is like a bottle of liquor is a normal bottle.
Examples
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Real fruit often leaves some sediment in the bottle, which is fine water.
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The boy wiped the mouth of the bottle with his shirt, and the foreman laughed.
Fiction book (1991) -
So I bought a bottle of their black.
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Maybe you should bring the whole bottle.
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And ever since then, I have bought multiple bottles of this.
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Trav, We got a fine, fine, exquisite bottle of apple juice.
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Workers weigh samples, label bottles with the origin of the sample, and pack samples in dry ice.
Academic text (2016) -
I would like a bottle of olive oil for the recipe.
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She took a bottle of water on her hike.
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The store sells different sizes of bottles for sauces.
Synonyms
An amount of liquid that fills a bottle
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
A party game where people sit in a circle and spin a bottle to kiss the person it points to
A container filled with hot water to warm a bed or soothe a part of the body
- 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
- US
A law that makes people pay a small deposit for drink containers and get it back when they recycle them
- Specialized
A device that uses magnets to hold very hot gas for fusion experiments
A plant from eastern North America with blue or white tube-shaped flowers that stay mostly closed
A climbing plant with hard, bottle-shaped fruit used as food or dried to make containers
- Specialized
A lab bottle that passes gas through a liquid to clean the gas or add gas to the liquid
- Archaic
A small bottle with a strong smell that helps wake someone who has fainted
- Specialized
A small bottle for collecting and keeping medical samples like urine
A container with two walls and empty space between them that keeps drinks hot or cold
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Bottle can also mean the amount a bottle holds because the word began as butticula, a 'small barrel' for liquid; people naturally used the word for the quantity that fits inside. That's why we say 'a bottle of oil' to mean that amount.