bottle
US: /ˈbɑtəɫ/
UK: /bˈɒtəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
bottle /'bɔtl/- danh từ
- chai, lọ
- bầu sữa (cho trẻ em bú) ((cũng) feeding)
- to be brought up on the bottle: nuôi bằng sữa ngoài, không cho bú mẹ
- rượu; thói uống rượu
- to be fond of the bottle: thích uống rượu
- to discuss something over a bottle: vừa uống rượu, vừa thảo luận việc gì
- to take to the bottle: nhiễm cái thói uống rượu; bắt đầu thích uống rượu
- black bottle
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) chất độc, nọc độc
- to known somebody his bottle up
- biết ai từ thuở còn thơ
- ngoại động từ
- đóng chai
- bottled fruit: quả đóng chai
- (từ lóng) bắt được quả tang
- to bottle off
- rót vào chai; đổ vào chai
- to bottle up
- giữ, kiềm chế, nén
- he could no longer bottle up his anger: anh ấy không thể nào nén giận được nữa
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) giam chân
- đóng chai
- danh từ
- bó rơm, bó rạ, bó cỏ khô
- to look for a needle in a bottle of hay
- (xem) needle
- ngoại động từ
- bó (rơm, rạ...) thành bó
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 [C] a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids: a wine / beer / milk bottle + Put the top back on the bottle.
2 [C] (also bottleful ) the amount contained in a bottle: We drank a whole bottle of wine.
3 (the bottle) [sing.] (informal) alcoholic drink: After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
4 [C, usually sing.] a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother's milk): It's time for her bottle.
5 [U] (BrE, informal) courage or confidence, for example to do sth that is dangerous or unpleasant: It took a lot of bottle to do that. + I didn't think she'd have the bottle to ask him.
+ verb [VN]
1 to put a liquid into a bottle: The wines are bottled after three years.
2 to put fruit or vegetables into glass containers in order to preserve them: Keep your empty jam jars for bottling next year's fruit.
bottled adjective: bottled beer / water / pickles + bottled gas (= sold in metal containers for use in heating and cooking)
Idioms: bottle it (BrE, informal) to not do sth, or not finish sth, because you are frightened
Phrasal Verbs: bottle out (of sth / doing sth) (BrE, informal) to not do sth that you had intended to do because you are too frightened
bottle sth<->up to not allow other people to see that you are unhappy, angry, etc., especially when this happens over a long period of time: Try not to bottle up your emotions.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 flask, container; fiasco, decanter:
The milkman left two bottles of milk.
2 courage, nerve, manliness, manfulness, grit, backbone, gumption, mettle, pluck, Dutch courage, Slang guts; Colloq spunk, starch, US moxie:
He was going to tell her off but lost his bottle at the last minute.
3 the bottle. alcohol, alcoholic drink, spirit(s), liquor, booze, sauce:
He's back on the bottle after only two weeks of being on the wagon.
v.
4 bottle up.
(a) contain, restrain, hold back, control, suppress, repress, hold or keep in check, stifle:
All the emotions, bottled up for so long, burst upon him at once, and he wept pitiably.
(b) trap, cut off, hem in, box in:
With the help of the posse, we can bottle up the gang in the canyon.
Collocation
ADJ.
full | empty | recyclable, returnable | beer, medicine, milk, etc. | hot-water | feeding
VERB + BOTTLE
fill
She filled the bottle with water.
| empty | break/crack open
(only used about alcoholic drinks),
open, uncork
Let's crack open a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
| drink, have, wash sth down with
We washed the stew down with a bottle of cheap red wine.
| share | bring
(= to bring a bottle of alcoholic drink to a party)
BOTTLE + NOUN
top | opener | bank | feeding
PREP.
over a/the ~
We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine.
| ~ of
PHRASES
be on the bottle
(= to be an alcoholic),
hit the bottle/take to the bottle
(= to start drinking alcohol heavily)
Concise dictionary
bottles|bottled|bottling'bɒtlnoun
+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
+the quantity contained in a bottle
+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
verb
+store (liquids or gases) in bottles
+put into bottles
