The difference between Bottle and Feeding bottle
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 feeding bottle means a bottle for feeding milk to babies or to the young of other animals.
Bottle is also verb with the meaning: to seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. also fig.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bottle and Feeding bottle
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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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Feeding bottle as a noun:
A bottle for feeding milk to babies or to the young of other animals.