bottle Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun 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
noun the quantity contained in a bottle
bottleful.
noun 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.
verb store (liquids or gases) in bottles
verb put into bottles
- bottle the mineral water

OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. ✍ Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.

imperfect & past participle Bottled present participle & verbal noun Bottling

To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.