Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bottle

(bottles, bottling, bottled) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A bottle is a glass or plastic container in which drinks and other liquids are kept. Bottles are usually round with straight sides and a narrow top. There were two empty beer bottles on the table... He was pulling the cork from a bottle of wine. ...Victorian scent bottles. N-COUNT • A bottle of something is an amount of it contained in a bottle. He had drunk half a bottle of whisky. N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. To bottle a drink or other liquid means to put it into bottles after it has been made. This is a large truck which has equipment to automatically bottle the wine. ...bottled water. VERB: V n, V-ed 3. A bottle is a drinking container used by babies. It has a special rubber part at the top through which they can suck their drink. N-COUNT: usu with supp 4. see also bottled, feeding bottle, hot-water bottle, water bottle