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Definition: BOTTLED |
BOTTLEDAdjective1. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. 2. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle. Imperative & past participle1. Of Bottle |
Date "BOTTLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Crosswords: BOTTLED |
| English words defined with "BOTTLED": apple juice ♦ Bottle ale ♦ grape juice, grapefruit juice ♦ orange juice ♦ pineapple juice ♦ Santiago, Santiago de Cuba, steak sauce ♦ tomato 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 carrier ♦ chateau bottled, Cock and Bottle, coffee-urn attendant, corked taste ♦ DEFLECTOR OPERATOR ♦ estate bottled ♦ lights inspector ♦ maintenance worker, house trailer, manager, vending department, MOBILE-HOME-LOT UTILITY WORKER ♦ PASTEURIZER ♦ QUALITY-CONTROL TECHNICIAN ♦ Refreshments ♦ SALVAGE INSPECTOR, STEPNEY, Stimulants of Great Men, SUPERVISOR, COOLER SERVICE ♦ wine-bottle inspector. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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![]() | 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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| "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. |
| Author | Quotation |
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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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Well, maybe the bottled soda will be all right |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 58.48% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 24.55% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 15.63% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.34% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 224 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BOTTLED": rebottled. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BOTTLED" (pronounced bÄ"tuld) |
| 5 | -Ä" t u l d | mottled, throttled. |
| 4 | -t u l d | battled, belittled, chortled, disgruntled, dismantled, embattled, entitled, nettled, rattled, resettled, scuttled, settled, shuttled, startled, subtitled, tattled, titled, totaled, totalled, unsettled, whittled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, 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. | ||
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. | |
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