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inglés > español
bottle
1. s. Depósito. Botella, frasco.
2. s. La cantidad contenida en una botella o frasco.
3. s. Biberón.
4. s. Carácter, coraje.
5. Embotellar, envasar.
inglés > inglés
bottle
1. s. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Beer is often sold in bottles.
2. s. The contents of such a container.
I only drank a bottle of beer.
3. s. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
The baby wants a bottle.
4. s. (UK, informal) Nerve, courage.
You don’t have the bottle to do that!   He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
5. s. (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
6. s. (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
7. s. (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
to hit the bottle
Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car” (song): See, my old man’s got a problem. He live(SIC) with the bottle; that’s the way it is.
8. s. (printing) the tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
9. v. To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
10. v. (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
11. v. (UK, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
The rider bottled the big jump.
12. v. (UK, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
13. v. (UK, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
14. s. (dialectal) A dwelling; habitation.
15. s. (dialectal) A building; house.
español > inglés
botella
1. n-f. bottle
2. n-f. tank (closed container for liquids or gases)

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I've been saving this bottle of wine for a special occasion.      He guardado esta botella de vino para una ocasión especial. The bottle is made of glass.      La botella está hecha de vidrio. He drinks a bottle of beer at dinner.      Él se toma una botella de cerveza a la cena. There is a little milk in the bottle.      Hay un poco de leche en la botella. He drank orange juice out of a bottle.      Él bebió zumo de naranja de una botella.

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