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BOTTLED

Definition: BOTTLED

BOTTLED

Adjective

1. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.

2. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Bottle

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BOTTLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

 

Synonyms: BOTTLED

Synonyms by domain: bottled at the winery (food & agriculture), bottled beer (food & agriculture), bottled beer sales (food & agriculture, economics), bottled gas (mining, meteorology & standards), bottled inert gas (nuclear energy & physics, physics), bottled milk (food & agriculture), bottled oxygen supply (nuclear energy & physics, physics), bottled water (food & agriculture), bottled wine (food & agriculture), canned and bottled food (food & agriculture), chateau bottled (food & agriculture), cook-chill product (food & agriculture), estate bottled (food & agriculture), frozen food (food & agriculture), loose,unprocessed food (food & agriculture), portable gas (chemical industry), ready-prepared fresh fruit and vegetable (food & agriculture).

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Crosswords: BOTTLED

English words defined with "BOTTLED": apple juiceBottle alegrape juice, grapefruit juiceorange juicepineapple juiceSantiago, Santiago de Cuba, steak saucetomato juice. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BOTTLED": bar attendant, bar porter, bar runner, BARTENDER HELPER, bottle sickness, bottled at the winery, Bottled Beer, bottled inert gas, Bottled Moonshine, Bulk carrierchateau bottled, Cock and Bottle, coffee-urn attendant, corked tasteDEFLECTOR OPERATORestate bottledlights inspectormaintenance worker, house trailer, manager, vending department, MOBILE-HOME-LOT UTILITY WORKERPASTEURIZERQUALITY-CONTROL TECHNICIANRefreshmentsSALVAGE INSPECTOR, STEPNEY, Stimulants of Great Men, SUPERVISOR, COOLER SERVICEwine-bottle inspector. (references)

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Modern Usage: BOTTLED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Keep it bottled up inside you. Silently (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

Lyrics

Twenty years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him. (Coward of the County; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Movie/TV Titles

The Bottled Spider (1914)

Bottled Courage (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BOTTLED

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2001 Report on Bottled Tomato Sauces: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Bottled Tomato Sauces: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Still Bottled Water in Latin America (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Chinese Soy Recipe Bottled Sauces (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Bottled & Blond (reference)

  • History of the American Soft Drink Industry Bottled Carbonated Beverages 1807-1957 (reference)

  • MarketLooks: The U.S. Market for Bottled Water: Water Filtration Devices, Water Softeners, and Germicidal Tablets [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • H2O: The Guide to Quality Bottled Water (reference)

  • Bottled Lager [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: BOTTLED

Photos:
BOTTLED

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Photo Album: BOTTLED

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Corner of grocery store with man taking bottled drinks from supplies to fill ice box. Near New Iberia, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bottled milk. Duluth Milk Company. Duluth, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Preparing labels for bottled vaccines. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Labeling bottled vaccines. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Typhus vaccine to be bottled. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Canned and bottled foods. Display of canned and bottled foods. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: BOTTLED
 

"Bottled pillar" by Michelle Ho
Commentary: "One of the temple pillars, all decorated with beer and liquor bottles as well as bits of sea shells in between."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: BOTTLED

AuthorQuotation

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: BOTTLED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Well, maybe the bottled soda will be all right

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BOTTLED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Ask for drinks without ice unless the ice is made from bottled or boiled water. (references)

Drink only bottled or boiled (1 minute) water or carbonated (bubbly) drinks in cans or bottles. (references)

In the United States, nationally distributed brands of bottled or canned carbonated soft drinks are safe to drink. (references)

Business

Bottled beer accounts for about one-third of the market. (references)

The leading importer, Benvenuto-La Compagnola SA, is a food processor, with a wide range of canned and bottled products. (references)

They find that selling sunflower oil in bulk to the world, which can be bottled in any country, offers slim margins since commodity prices of ordinary oils apply. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Visitors are advised to filter and boil (or distill) drinking water, or purchase bottled water. (references)

Russia

The beverage processing and packaging industry is producing ever-larger quantities of bottled drinking water. (references)

Rwanda

The larger enterprises produce beer, soft drinks, cigarettes, hoes, wheelbarrows, soap, cement, mattresses, plastic pipe, roofing materials, textiles, and bottled water. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

Labeling and expiration date requirements are stringent and an export impediment for U.S. fresh eggs and bottled baby food products. (references)

Ireland

Excise taxes are levied on a limited number of products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, spirits, beer, wine, bottled water, cider and perry, tobacco, motor vehicles, and liquid petroleum gas. (references)

Philippines

Category II includes: alcoholic beverages; food supplements; tea (herbal); bottled drinking water; foods for infant & children; foods for special dietary use; transgenic food products (use of genetic engineering/biotechnology) and; ethnic food products with indigenous ingredient(s) not common in the Philippines. (references)

Travel

Ghana

You should only drink bottled water. (references)

Nepal

Some locally bottled water may be unsafe. (references)

Mexico

It is best to drink bottled beverages without ice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: BOTTLED

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

You can't keep freedom bottled up, or drip it out as the USSR tried to do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BOTTLED

"BOTTLED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 58.48% of the time. "BOTTLED" is used about 224 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)58.48%13127,855
Lexical Verb (past participle)24.55%5545,713
Lexical Verb (past tense)15.63%3558,339
Noun (proper)1.34%3202,518
                    Total100.00%224N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BOTTLED

Expressions using "BOTTLED": bottled at the winery bottled beer bottled food bottled fruit bottled gas bottled in bottled in this country bottled inert gas bottled up bottled vegetables bottled water canned and bottled food chateau bottled estate bottled. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "BOTTLED": bottled-conditioned, bottled-gas, bottled-in, Bottled-in-scotland, bottled-up, bottled-water.

Ending with "BOTTLED": chateau-bottled, estate-bottled, locally-bottled, ready-bottled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BOTTLED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bottled water

1,410

bottled tea

9

bottled water cooler

89

bottled water pump

9

bottled water company

86

bottled water wholesale

9

bottled water delivery

53

bottled water equipment

9

bottled spring water

47

bottled water vs tap water

9

bottled water dispenser

39

bottled water machine

9

drinking bottled water

36

evian bottled water

8

bottled mineral water

27

bottled rating water

8

bottled outhouse springs water

23

arrowhead bottled water

8

private label bottled water

19

crystal springs bottled water

8

bottled water home delivery

18

bottled drinking water company

7

association bottled international water

18

custom bottled water

7

bottled water brand

17

bottled comparison water

7

bottled

17

canadian bottled water

7

association bottled canadian water

16

bottled water label

7

best bottled water

14

bottled water picture

7

bottled water industry

13

bottled dispenser mineral supplier water

6

bottled water business

11

personalized bottled water

6

bottled outhouse water

11

custom label bottled water

6

bottled water distributor

10

culligan bottled water

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BOTTLED

Language Translations for "BOTTLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

装瓶 (Bottling). (various references)

   

Danish

  

slotsaftappet (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kasteelbotteling (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), domeinbotteling (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tilapullote (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), tilalla pullotettu (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), nestekaasu (bottled gas, liquid gas). (various references)

   

French

  

bouché. (various references)

   

German

  

in Flaschen abgefüllt, in flaschen, flaschen-, eingemacht (potted). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εμφιάλωση στον πύργο (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), εμφιαλωμένος στον πύργο (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

befőtt (bottled fruit, canned fruit, conserve, preserve, preserved fruit), palackozott bor (bottled wine), konzerv (bottled foods, can, conserve, tin, tinned food), üvegben tartósított élelem (bottled foods). (various references)

   

Italian

  

imbottigliato dal produttore (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

瓶詰め (bottling). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

びんづめ (bottling). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

병에 넣는. (various references)

   

Manx

  

costraylit, boteilit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ottledbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

engarrafamento no produtor (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), água engarrafada (bottled water). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

conservat (canned, conserved, preserved, salt, tinned). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разливать по бутылкам/ бутылочный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

embotellado (bottling). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slottstappad (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), originaltappad (bottled at the winery, chateau bottled, estate bottled), härtappad (bottled in this country), öl på flaskor (bottled beer). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bastırılmış (appeased, bottled up, depressed, pent up, restrained, subdued), şişelenmiş, şişede. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стримуваний (controllable, suppressed), пляшковий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BOTTLED

Derivations

Words ending with "BOTTLED": rebottled. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BOTTLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bootlid, botle, botled, botred, bottae, bottl, bottla, Bottley, Gottleb, obtle, pottled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BOTTLED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BOTTLED" (pronounced bÄ"tuld)
5-Ä" t u l dmottled, throttled.
4-t u l dbattled, belittled, chortled, disgruntled, dismantled, embattled, entitled, nettled, rattled, resettled, scuttled, settled, shuttled, startled, subtitled, tattled, titled, totaled, totalled, unsettled, whittled.
3-u l daddled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, disheveled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tickled, tinkled, toggled, toppled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BOTTLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blotted.

Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-o-t-t"

-1 letter: bolted, bottle, dottel, dottle, lotted.

-2 letters: botel, lobed, lotte, toled, toted.

-3 letters: belt, bled, blet, blot, bode, bold, bole, bolt, bott, debt, delt, dole, dolt, dote, lobe, lode, toed, told, tole, tote.

-4 letters: bed, bel, bet, bod, bot, deb, del, doe, dol, dot, eld, led, let, lob, lot, obe, ode, old, ole, ted, tel.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-l-o-t-t"
 

+2 letters: rebottled.

 

+3 letters: outbleated, subtotaled.

 

+4 letters: buttonholed, detonatable, letterboxed, obliterated, subtotalled, thunderbolt, tolbutamide.

 

+5 letters: battleground, bloodletting, bottlenecked, debilitation, detonability, flutterboard, thunderbolts, tolbutamides.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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