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 like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Fred Allen
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire
The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
George Lopez
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
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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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