bottle meaning

• Noun: bottle  bótl
  1. A glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped 
  2. The quantity contained in a bottle
     - bottleful 
  3. A vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
     - feeding bottle, nursing bottle 
  4. (informal) courage
     "it took a lot of bottle"
  Verb: bottle  bótl
  1. Store (liquids or gases) in bottles 
  2. Put into bottles
     "bottle the mineral water"

  Derived forms: bottling, bottles, bottled

  See also: bottler

  Type of: containerful, lay, place, pose, position, put, set, store, vessel

  Encyclopedia: Bottle

• 
  [American slang]
  n. a drunkard.
  • The bar was empty save for an old bottle propped against the side of a booth.
  • That old girl is just a bottle. There's more booze in her than outside.
  
  
• 
  [British slang]
  Noun. Courage, confidence. E.g."Johnny's scared, he's lost his bottle.”
  Verb: To smash a bottle into a person's face, very often a beer bottle after a drinking spree.
  
• 
  [Architecture]
  

  Old English term for bowtell.


[Engineering]
"A container made from pipe or plate with drawn, forged, or spun end closures, and used for storing or transporting gas."
• 
  [Medicine]
  n often attrib
  1 : a rigid or semirigid container typically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usu. no handle —see WASH BOTTLE
  2 : liquid food usu. consisting of milk and supplements that is fed from a bottle (as to an infant) in place of mother's milk
  

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Examples

1. they stood themselves a bottle of wine.
2. he asked me to crack a bottle with him.
3. after she died he began to hit the bottle.
4. we can officially opened a fresh bottle.
5. our prices start from $ 2.50 a bottle.