The difference between Bottle and Courage
When used as nouns, bottle means a container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids, whereas courage means the quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
When used as verbs, bottle means to seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. also fig, whereas courage means to encourage.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bottle and Courage
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Bottle as a noun:
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Examples:
"Beer is often sold in bottles."
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Bottle as a noun:
The contents of such a container.
Examples:
"I only drank a bottle of beer."
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Bottle as a noun:
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
Examples:
"The baby wants a bottle."
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Bottle as a noun (British, informal):
Nerve, courage.
Examples:
"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."
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Bottle as a noun (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color):
A container of hair dye, hence with one's hair color produced by dyeing.
Examples:
"Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde."
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Bottle as a noun (obsolete):
A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
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Bottle as a noun (figurative):
Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
Examples:
"to drown one’s troubles in the bottle'"
"to hit the bottle'"
"[[w:Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman]], “Fast Car” (song): ''See, my old man’s got a problem. He liveSIC with the bottle; that’s the way it is."
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Bottle as a noun (printing):
the tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
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Bottle as a verb (transitive):
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
Examples:
"This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day."
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Bottle as a verb (transitive, British):
To feed (an infant) baby formula.
Examples:
"Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him."
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Bottle as a verb (British, slang):
To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
Examples:
"The rider bottled the big jump."
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Bottle as a verb (British, slang):
To strike (someone) with a bottle.
Examples:
"He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery."
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Bottle as a verb (British, slang):
To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
Examples:
"[[w:Meat Loaf Meat Loaf]] was once bottled at Reading Festival."
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Bottle as a noun (UK, dialectal, or, obsolete):
A dwelling; habitation.
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Bottle as a noun (UK, dialectal):
A building; house.
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Courage as a noun:
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
Examples:
"It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business."
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Courage as a noun:
The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
Examples:
"He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt."
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Courage as a verb (obsolete):
To encourage.