Bottle | Mean of bottle in English Dictionary

/ˈbɑːtl̟/

• Noun
• a glass or plastic container that has a narrow neck and usually has no handle
1. Shall I open another bottle of wine?
2. There's a bottle of aspirin in the cabinet.
3. empty soda bottles
4. She kept a bottle [=a bottle of some strong alcoholic drink like whiskey] tucked away in the coat closet.
5. Be sure to bring a water bottle [=bottle containing water] on your hike.
6. Would you get me the bottle opener [=a tool used to remove metal tops from some bottles], please?
• the amount contained in a bottle
1. We drank a bottle of wine.
• alcoholic drink
1. He says he's lost too many years to the bottle, and that he's giving up alcohol.
2. Her struggles with the bottle affected her entire family.
3. I hear he's (gone) off the bottle. [=stopped drinking alcohol]
4. After his divorce he took to the bottle. [=began to drink a lot of alcohol]
5. When she gets depressed she hits the bottle. [=begins drinking a lot of alcohol]

• a special bottle for feeding babies that contains milk or a drink which contains milk
1. Has the baby finished her bottle yet?
2. (US) a baby bottle = (Brit) a baby's bottle
3. raised on a bottle instead of breast milk
• courage or strength of spirit
1. I don't think he's got bottle [=guts] enough to confront them.
• Verb
• to put (something) into a bottle so that it can be sold or so that it is easier to use
1. The restaurant bottles its own ginger ale.
2. Near the top of the mountain, the climbers relied on bottled oxygen to breathe.
3. bottled water
4. bottled gas [=gas that is stored in containers for people to use in heating their homes or for cooking]
• to put (fruit or vegetables) in a jar using a special procedure that preserves them
1. At the end of summer we bottle [=(US) can, preserve, put up] tomatoes from the garden.
• to become too afraid to do something
1. I was going to ask him but then I bottled out. [=chickened out]
• to keep (a feeling or emotion) inside of you instead of expressing it
1. She's kept her feelings about the accident bottled up for too long.
2. I know he's angry, but he bottles it up inside instead of talking to someone about it.