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# bottle

«bottle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#m1)

2) A bottle can mean the drink in it: «He drank a bottle of juice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#m2)

3) To bottle something is to put it into bottles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x1)
- Each bottle holds 2 liters of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x2)
- He drank 3 bottles of juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x3)
- How many bottles are needed for 12 liters? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x4)
- Bring a water bottle on the school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x5)
- We recycle glass bottles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x6)
- The baby drinks milk from a bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x7)
- A message in a bottle washed up on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/17/)
- [Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means less land cleared and less pollution.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/17/)
- [Milk is cooled, heated to kill germs and then bottled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/8/)
- [Then it goes into cartons and bottles and back into the cold, all the way to your fridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/5/)
- [A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bottle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.