Definition of Bottle

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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

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
Phyllis Diller

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Vance Havner

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

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra

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

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire

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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