Word Finder - bottles

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A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

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Beer is often sold in bottles.

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The contents of such a container.

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I only drank a bottle of beer.

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A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

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The baby wants a bottle.

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Nerve, courage.

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He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.

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(of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

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Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.

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

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Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

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to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

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The tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

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To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

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This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

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To feed (an infant) baby formula.

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Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.

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To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

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The rider bottled the big jump.

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To throw away a leading position.

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Liverpool bottled the Premier League.

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To strike (someone) with a bottle.

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He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.

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To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

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Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.

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A dwelling; habitation.

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A building; house.

She glanced down at the three bottles and his mid-section.

He waved at bottles, beakers, and slides.

He finished a couple of bottles of wine by himself.

The place does a considerable trade in the making of bricks, bottles, earthenware, pottery, tiles and paper.

Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald was slipping two one-pint bottles of vodka into a paper bag as Dean was about to open the door.

Finally he said, "I told him to buy a couple of bottles of vodka and drink them himself."

The principal are the Hunyadi-Janos spring, of which about 1,000,000 bottles are exported annually, the Arpad spring, and the Apenta spring.

As soon as he sank into his place on the sofa after two bottles of Margaux he was surrounded, and talking, disputing, and joking began.

I changed the subject and opened one of the bottles of wine we'd brought from New York.

Do you always buy your booze in pint bottles?

He dumped the rest in the garbage disposal and turned it on, returning a few minutes later with the other bottles.

We can store it in bottles.

Guess we should start stock piling bottles.

She did want to use the bags first, and if Jackson hadn't been in this state, he would be getting a shrill earful for feeding from the bottles.

The city has a considerable trade with the surrounding country, in which large quantities of tobacco and hemp are produced; its manufactures include lumber, brooms, chairs, shoes, hemp twine, canned vegetables and glass bottles.

The water is both drunk and used for bathing by some 40,000 visitors annually, and is exported in bottles.

In 1905 the borough ranked fifth among the cities of the United States in the manufacture of glass (plateglass, lamp chimneys and bottles), its product (valued at $1,841,308) being 2.3% of that of the whole country.

The fundamental idea of Soxhlet's method for sterilizing milk is to boil it for forty minutes in small bottles holding just enough for one meal, and closing the same with an impervious stopper, which is only removed just before use.

If this is anhydrous, as it must be in any case for this purpose, it does not act upon the metal of the compressors, nor upon the iron bottles in which it is sent out.

Meeting a comrade at the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov had drunk three bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostov, who grew more and more impatient the nearer they got to Moscow.

In spite of the many pills she swallowed and the drops and powders out of the little bottles and boxes of which Madame Schoss who was fond of such things made a large collection, and in spite of being deprived of the country life to which she was accustomed, youth prevailed.

I saw Fitzgerald buy two pint bottles of vodka that morning.

But in Fitzgerald's defense, there were two pint bottles of vodka at Lydia Larkin's place, so he may have bought them for her.

This salt is also formed by dissolving tin in strong hydrochloric acid and allowing it to crystallize, and is industrially prepared by passing sufficiently hydrated hydrochloric acid gas over granulated tin contained in stoneware bottles and evaporating the concentrated solution produced in tin basins over granulated tin.

Glass stoppers are fitted to bottles by grinding.

Except for making bottles of special colours, gas-heated tank furnaces are in general use.

For the highest quality of bottles, which are practically colourless, sand, limestone and sulphate and carbonate of soda are used.

For the commoner grades of dark-coloured bottles the glass mixture is cheapened by substituting common salt for part of the sulphate of soda, and by the addition of felspar, granite, granulite, furnace slag and other substances fusible at a high temperature.

The bottles are stacked in iron trucks, which, when full, are moved slowly away from a constant source of heat.

The " primitive " vessels which have been found in Egypt are small in size and consist of columnar stibium jars, flattened bottles and amphorae, all decorated with zigzag lines, tiny wide-mouthed vases on feet and minute jugs.

At the present day bottles and drinkingvessels are made in Persia which in texture and quality differ little from ordinary Venetian glass of the 16th or 17th centuries, while in form they exactly resemble those which may be seen in the engravings in Chardin's Travels.

For example, in the less modern methods for manufacturing nitric acid the vapours were conducted directly into double-necked bottles (bombonnes) immersed in water.

Solids may be directly admitted to the tube from a weighing bottle, while liquids are conveniently introduced by means of small stoppered bottles, or, in the case of exceptionally volatile liquids, by means of a bulb blown on a piece of thin capillary tube, the tube being sealed during the weighing operation, and the capillary broken just before transference to the apparatus.

The differences of salinity support this method, and, especially in the northern European seas, often prove a sharper criterion of the boundaries than temperature itself; this is especially the case at the entrance to the Baltic. Evidence drawn from drift-wood, wrecks or special drift bottles is less distinct but still interesting and often useful; this method of investigation includes the use of icebergs as indicators of the trend of currents and also of plankton, the minute swimming or drifting organisms so abundant at the surface of the sea.

Among its manufactures are fertilizers, bottles, carbonated beverages, flour, beer, shoes, silk thread, aprons, brooms, leather, bricks, and tiling and structural iron.

In addition to other iron and engineering works, Douai has a large cannon foundry and an arsenal; coal-mining and the manufacture of glass and bottles and chemicals are carried on on a large scale in the environs; among the other industries are flax-spinning, rope-making, brewing and the manufacture of farm implements, oil, sugar, soap and leather.

Only one compound of hydrogen and fluorine is known, namely hydrofluoric acid, HF or H 2 F 2, which was first obtained by C. Scheele in 1771 by decomposing fluor-spar with concentrated sulphuric acid, a method still used for the commercial preparation of the aqueous solution of the acid, the mixture being distilled from leaden retorts and the acid stored in leaden or gutta-percha bottles.

Brunner's process consisted in forming an intimate mixture of potassium carbonate and carbon by igniting crude tartar in covered iron crucibles, cooling the mass, and then distilling it at a white heat from iron bottles, the vaporized metal being condensed beneath the surface of paraffin or naphtha contained in a copper vessel.

The city has various manufactures, including iron, engines, furnaces, reapers, threshers and bottles.

On the large scale it is obtained by distilling Chile saltpetre with concentrated sulphuric acid in horizontal cast iron stills, the vapours being condensed in a series of stoneware Woulfe's bottles.

The seeds should be kept in sacks or bags in a dry place, and if from plants which are rare, or liable to lose their vitality, they are advantageously packed for transmission to a distance in hermetically sealed bottles or jars filled with earth or moss, without the addition of moisture.

When quite dry they should be put into dry wide-mouthed bottles and kept closely corked.

The prepared leaves have a faint odour and bitter taste; and to preserve their properties they must be kept excluded from light in stoppered bottles.

The waters are used both for drinking and bathing, and of the two chief springs, the Oberbrunnen and the Kronenquelle, nearly two million bottles are annually exported.

No wonder that water from these rivers, especially the Ganges, is sent and taken in bottles to all parts of India to be used on occasion as healing medicine or for sacramental purposes.

They are then dried and put up for preservation in glass-stoppered bottles; and they require to be very carefully guarded against mites and various other minute insects, to the attacks of which they are peculiarly liable.

It appears also that it was this same Dom Perignon who first used cork as a material for closing wine bottles.

It is very likely that the discovery of the utility of cork for stoppering led to the invention of effervescent wine, the most plausible explanation being that Dom Perignon closed some bottles filled with partially fermented wine, with the new material, and on opening them later observed, the effects produced by the confined carbonic acid gas.

The bottles employed have to be of very fine quality, as the pressure which they have to stand may be as much as 7 to, 8 atmospheres or mere.

Formerly the loss through breakage was very great, but the art of making and selecting these bottles has greatly improved, and the loss now amounts to little more than 5%, whereas formerly 25% and even 30% was not an uncommon figure.