Betekenis van bottle In het Nederlands

• 0 a container for liquids, usually made of glass or plastic, with a narrow neck:

  • a milk bottle

  • a wine bottle

  • a bottle of beer/whisky

  • Plastic bottles are lighter than glass ones.

  • Give the baby her bottle when she wakes up.

  • Most medical experts believe that breastfeeding is better than bottle-feeding.

• 1 courage or willingness to take risks:

  • It took a lot of bottle to do what she did.

• 2 to put something into bottles or jars:

  • The wine is bottled at the vineyard.

  • To bottle fruit you put fresh fruit into special containers.

• 3 to not do something because you are frightened; to fail at something because you are frightened :

  • He should have taken the penalty but he bottled it.

• 4 the habit of regularly drinking a lot of alcohol:

  • She started to hit the bottle (= drink too much alcohol) after her divorce.

• 5 a container for liquids, usually made of glass or plastic, with a narrow neck:

  • a bottle of perfume

• 6 to put liquid into bottles:

  • The soda is bottled in Atlanta.