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to bottle

to bottle

37 1.6
To put liquid into bottles for sale or storage
  • verb
  • /ˈbɑːtəl/
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  • Devoting your life to the vines... and bottling the truth.
  • bottled water

Fun fact, after people drink the sewage beer, their urine is bottled as Natty Light.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Or he would boil and bottle the water and send it to them to drink.

    Blog text (18)
  • You can't bottle it up.

  • 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.

  • The chef plans to bottle the homemade sauce and sell it at the local market.

Synonyms

to bottle water
vsto bottle
2.0

To put water into a container to keep or carry it

is the general action of storing any liquid in containers
to bottle beer
vsto bottle
2.7

Put beer into glass containers for sale or storage

is the general act of putting any liquid into containers for storage

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

Phrasal Verbs

24 5.6

To keep strong feelings inside instead of telling others

To keep feelings inside instead of showing them

Put beer into glass containers for sale or storage

To put water into a container to keep or carry it

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 Complete

age
332 7.7
to bottle
37 1.6
to vinify
  • Specialized
1 9.9
ferment
  • Specialized
1 5.5
crush
27 2.8

Surface Forms

bottle infinitive
bottled past
bottled past participle
bottling present participle
bottles third person singular

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.