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Definition of Bottle
Bottle

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.

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.

A bundle, esp. of hay.

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Bottle Quotations

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal labotomy.
Fred Allen

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.
Susan George

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
Kevin J. Anderson

Bottle Translations

bottle in Afrikaans is bottel
bottle in Danish is flaske
bottle in Dutch is fles
bottle in Finnish is pullo
bottle in French is flacon, moufle, bouteille
bottle in German is Flasche, Flache
bottle in Italian is bottiglia, boccetta
bottle in Norwegian is flaske
bottle in Portuguese is frasco, garrafa
bottle in Spanish is botella, frasco
bottle in Swedish is flaska, butelj


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