Bottle

['bɒt(ə)l] or ['bɑtl]

解释:

(noun.) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped.

(noun.) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children.

(noun.) the quantity contained in a bottle.

(verb.) put into bottles; 'bottle the mineral water'.

(verb.) store (liquids or gases) in bottles.

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解释:

(n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

(n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

(n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

(v. t.) 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.

(n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.

录入:温思罗普

解释:

n. a bundle of hay.—To look for a needle in a bottle of hay to engage in a hopeless search.

n. a hollow vessel for holding liquids: the contents of such a vessel: the habit of drinking.—v.t. to enclose in bottles.—n. Bott′le-chart one which purports to show the track of sealed bottles thrown from ships into the sea.—p.adj. Bott′led enclosed in bottles: shaped or protuberant like a bottle: kept in restraint.—ns. Bott′le-glass a coarse green glass used in the making of bottles; Bott′le-gourd or False Calabash a climbing musky-scented Indian annual whose fruit is shaped like a bottle an urn or a club.—adjs. Bott′le-green dark green in colour like bottle-glass.—Bott′le-head Bott′le-nosed having a rounded prominent head with a short snout as a certain genus of whale.—ns. Bott′le-hold′er one who attends upon a boxer at a prize-fight a backer or supporter generally; Bott′le-imp an imp supposed to be confined in a bottle; Bott′le-wash′er one whose business it is to wash out the bottles a factotum generally.—A three-bottle man one who could drink three bottles without losing his decorum.—To bottle off to draw from the cask and put into bottles; To bottle up (one's wrath &c.) to keep enclosed as in a bottle; To bring up on the bottle to rear an infant artificially rather than by the breast; To pass the bottle to make the drink go round; To pass the bottle of smoke to acquiesce in some falsehood to make pretence.

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