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bottle

bottle

284 1.0
The amount of liquid a bottle can hold
  • noun
  • /ˈbɑːtəl/
translation icon : botella
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Real fruit often leaves some sediment in the bottle, which is fine water.

  • 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.

  • Maybe you should bring the whole bottle.

  • And ever since then, I have bought multiple bottles of this.

  • Trav, We got a fine, fine, exquisite bottle of apple juice.

  • 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.

  • She took a bottle of water on her hike.

  • The store sells different sizes of bottles for sauces.

Synonyms

bottleful
vsbottle
2.2

An amount of liquid that fills a bottle

describes how much liquid that container can hold

Idioms

3 9.4

Start drinking a lot of alcohol to cope with problems

3 9.2

A rare success that happens when everything goes right

To try to undo something you cannot change

1 7.5

Someone presents a known idea as if it were new

A fair chance to take part or succeed

To become suddenly too afraid to do something you planned

New ideas put into an old way that do not bring real change

Compounds

A glass container that holds wine for serving or storage

43 1.0

A container for carrying water to drink

22 1.0

A glass or plastic container that holds beer

11 1.0

A glass container for keeping and pouring wine

A tool for taking off caps or corks from bottles

spin the bottle
  • Informal
7 5.0

A party game where people sit in a circle and spin a bottle to kiss the person it points to

6 1.6

A small plastic or glass container that holds pills

6 1.0

A bottle that holds a soft drink like cola

6 2.7

A container filled with hot water to warm a bed or soothe a part of the body

A small bottle that holds ketchup and lets you squeeze it onto food

5 1.7

A glass bottle that holds whiskey for drinking

4 1.0

A bottle used to hold milk for feeding babies

message in a bottle
  • Literature
3 5.9

A note put in a bottle and thrown into the sea to be found later

2 1.1

A bottle that holds fizzy soft drinks like cola

bottle blonde
  • Informal
1 6.5

A person whose hair is dyed or bleached to look blonde rather than naturally blonde

bottle tree
  • Australian
1 8.6

A tree with a thick trunk shaped like a bottle that stores water

1 2.7

A large public container where people put empty glass bottles for recycling

1 5.6

A law that makes people pay a small deposit for drink containers and get it back when they recycle them

A large intelligent sea animal with a rounded forehead and a long beak

magnetic bottle
  • Specialized
1 8.4

A device that uses magnets to hold very hot gas for fusion experiments

1 1.0

A small bottle that holds ink for refilling pens and drawing

A bottle that keeps drinks hot or cold for a long time

bottle capper
  • Specialized
3.9

A tool that puts caps on bottles

Keeping bottles as a hobby to display and enjoy

Collecting used bottles to be recycled or reused

A small plug that closes the top of a bottle, often for wine

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

8.1

A grass from Europe that spreads easily and is a common weed

A dark green like the color of glass bottles

bottle rat
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who drinks too much at parties and seeks free drinks

A tool for pulling a cork out of a bottle

9.9

A person who asks for and accepts free drinks at bars to get attention

9.9

A wild grass that grows in farm fields and causes problems for crops

Dark green like the glass of a bottle

A whale with a rounded forehead that lives in the North Atlantic

9.9

A hangover after drinking too much beer

catsup bottle
  • Archaic
1.0

A container for holding and pouring ketchup

A small bottle with a soft nipple for giving milk or formula to babies

Klein bottle
  • Specialized
9.9

A surface in math that has only one side and no edge

gas washing bottle
  • Specialized
5.6

A lab bottle that bubbles gas into a liquid

gas-washing bottle
  • Specialized
6.9

A lab bottle that passes gas through a liquid to clean the gas or add gas to the liquid

A bottle with a soft nipple used to feed babies milk or formula

smelling bottle
  • Archaic
8.6

A small bottle with a strong smell that helps wake someone who has fainted

specimen bottle
  • Specialized
4.2

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

How Much

barrel
164 1.0
jug
14 1.0
bottle
284 1.0
glass
622 1.0
sip
165 1.0

Surface Forms

bottle singular
bottles plural

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.