bottle
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Noun 3 meanings
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
“Beer is often sold in bottles.”
The contents of such a container.
“I only drank a bottle of beer.”
(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
“You don’t have the bottle to do that!”
Verb 3 meanings
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
“This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.”
To feed (an infant) baby formula.
“Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.”
Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
Etymology
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.
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BOTTLE at a glance
BOTTLE has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + T 1 + T 1 + L 1 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,556 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bottle
All rhymesOne letter away
- BATTLE8
- BUTTLE8
- MOTTLE8
- POTTLE8
- DOTTLE7
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