bottle
part of speech
noun (bottle, bottles); verb (bottle, bottles, bottled)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bottle is a container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids. tree →
2) A bottle can mean the drink in it: «He drank a bottle of juice». tree →
3) To bottle something is to put it into bottles. tree →
sense in the lessons
a container counted (bottles of water or soda) or a unit holding a set amount of liquid; in science we measure the capacity of a bottle in litres or millilitres; phrases: «a bottle of», «bottle cap», «water bottle», «plastic bottle», «recycle bottles»
examples
- A shop has 25 bottles of soda. tree →
- Each bottle holds 2 liters of water. tree →
- He drank 3 bottles of juice. tree →
- How many bottles are needed for 12 liters? tree →
- Bring a water bottle on the school trip. tree →
- We recycle glass bottles. tree →
- The baby drinks milk from a bottle. tree →
- A message in a bottle washed up on the beach. tree →
note
A thing counted, or a container giving an amount per bottle (multiply). Trap: «bottle caps» are a different thing from bottles. Safety: never drink from a bottle if you do not know what is in it.
In the corpora
- Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.
- Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means less land cleared and less pollution.
- Milk is cooled, heated to kill germs and then bottled.
- Then it goes into cartons and bottles and back into the cold, all the way to your fridge.
- A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bottle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.