ink bottle
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- noun
- /ɪŋk ˈbɑːtəl/
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tintero
- Frowning, he bent over the book, dipping his pen in the ink bottle.
- pens and ink bottle
- glass ink bottle
Examples
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Most ink bottles have a dropper built in; otherwise, a dropper or ink liner will be required.
Academic text (2001) -
Moiraine was alone—for which he was grateful—sitting with an ink bottle balanced on her knee, writing in a small, leather-bound book.
Fiction book (1991) -
And in the struggle, the ink bottle is broken.
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The ink bottle of one of the scribes runs dry.
Fiction book (1991) -
There were papers and books on the table, ink pens, and an ink bottle.
Fiction book (1990) -
It resembled the shape of an ink bottle!
Fiction book (1998) -
Ned and Seth were left to nurse their wounds and collect ink bottles and overturned chairs.
Fiction book (1992) -
He moved to his desk and pushed a glass ink bottle in and out of the desk lamp's circle of light, slowly, the blue liquid sloshing up the bottle sides and leaving pale blue stains as it receded.
Fiction book (1992) -
He carefully filled his fountain pen from the ink bottle on his desk.
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The artist always kept an ink bottle nearby to refill her brushes for drawing.
Synonyms
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8.4
A small container that holds ink for dipping a pen
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A small container that holds ink for writing with a pen
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A small container that holds ink and pens for writing
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Morphology
The meaning 'a bottle that contains ink' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ink' (pigmented liquid) with 'bottle' (a container), following the common noun+noun compounding pattern in English. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Ink bottle gives a simple picture: a small glass bottle filled with ink that writers dipped their pens into or used to 'refill' pens. So, ink bottle means a bottle that holds ink for 'writing' or 'refilling' pens.