Bottle

What “Bottle” means

Noun

1. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
2. The contents of such a container.
3. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
4. (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
5. A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

Verb

1. To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
2. To feed (an infant) baby formula.
3. To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
4. To throw away a leading position.
5. To strike (someone) with a bottle.

Noun

1. A dwelling; habitation.
2. A building; house.

Noun

1. A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw-der. Ancient Greekbor.? Latin buttis Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Late Latin butticula Old French boteillebor. Middle English botel English bottle From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.

From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.

From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).

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Industries where “Bottle” fits

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• Plastics Bottle Manufacturing