Definitions for bottle

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bottle bot·tle

Spelling: [bot-l]

IPA: /ˈbɒt l/

Bottle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in bottle (belott).

Definitions for bottle

noun

1. a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
2. the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains:
3. bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk:
4. the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor:
5. boltel (def 2).

Idioms

1. hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.

Verb phrases

1. bottle up, to repress, control, or restrain: to enclose or entrap:

verb (used with object)

1. to put into or seal in a bottle:
2. British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.

Origin of bottle

1325-75; Middle English botel Anglo-French; Old French bo(u)teille Medieval Latin butticula, equivalent to Late Latin butti(s) butt⁴ + -cula Examples for bottle

If you need to store the bottle in the fridge, let it warm up for a few minutes on the counter before serving.

That means that Champagne is fermented a second time in the bottle when sealed closed, which naturally produces the bubbles.

Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.

One evening, after guzzling a bottle of whiskey, Stapp said he grabbed two MP5 machine guns from his collection.

"I remember now something you said when you broke the bottle of pilocarpin," he said slowly.

I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.

Also you will bury a bottle containing report of your proceedings.

Kingozi dropped that bottle into his side pocket with a sigh of relief.

His only nourishment was milk, drawn from a bottle through a quill.

Perhaps my father might have put that in a bottle also at a later date.