BOTTLES

"BOTTLES" is a plural of: bottle.

Date "BOTTLES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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

Unskillfulness

Mistake; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old bottles.

Crosswords: BOTTLES

Why couldn't you have supplied some hot water bottles or an electrically heated suit (Where Eagles Dare; writing credit: Alistair MacLean;)

And if you do come back bring four bottles of poison (Room Service; writing credit: Allen Boretz; John Murray)

Buy another three bottles. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Bill Angelos; Art Baer)

We never buy bottles. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Recycled soda bottles. What else did you find out (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)

Whisky bottles piling high (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies)

Got six model chicks, six bottles of Crist' (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

Start with straight shots and then pop bottles (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS)

Why you at the bar if you ain't poppin the bottles (Hot in Herre; performing artist: NELLY)

Billy likes to peal the labels from his bottles of bud ("All I Wanna Do"; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 a piece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards. (references; author: unknown)

Bottles (1936)

Blue Bottles (1928)

Empty Bottles (1923)

Broken Bottles (1920)

Bottles (1912)

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

References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Off-trade Lager in Non-returnable Glass Bottles in North America & the Caribbean (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Lager in Glass Bottles (reference)

• The World Market for Artists’ and Other Painters’ Colors and Modifying Tints in Tablets, Tubes, Jars, Bottles, Pans, or Similar Forms or Packings: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Coca Cola Commemorative Bottles: Identification & Value Guide (Coca-Cola Commemorative Bottles, 2nd Ed) (reference)

• 365 Bottles of Beer for the Year Page-A-Day Calendar 2003 (reference)

• Pool Cues, Beer Bottles, And Baseball Bats : Animal's Guide To Improvised Weapons For Self-Defense (reference)

• Art of Perfume: Discovering and Collecting Perfume Bottles (reference)

• Bottles and Bottle Collecting (Album Series, Volume 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Best Bottles Wineletter (reference)

• Australian Bottles & Collectables Review (reference)

• Bottles & Bygones Newsletter (reference)

• Bottles And Bygones (reference)

• Bottles And Extras (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• They Ordered Their Pints of Beer & Bottles of Sherry (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Minolta Model 8916-102 Toner Bottles, Pack Of 4 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• 9 oz. Feeding Bottles 3-pack (reference)

• Ansa - Brites Story Easy-To-Hold Brightly colored Spill Proof Cups and Bottles (reference)

• Ansa - Easy-To-Hold Baby Bottles and Teethers (reference)

• Mr. Beer Premium Micro Brewery 20028 with Bottles (reference)

• 3-pack 4 oz Dr. Browns Bottles (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown is a studio shot of a variety of chemotherapy drugs in bottles. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Seen are three bottles of interferon on a black background. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Indian Ink capsule stain is useful for improving visualization of encapsulated Bacillus anthracis in clinical samples such as blood, blood culture bottles, or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Credit: CDC.

A house constructed from beer bottles on the Nevada-California border. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Conductivity-Temperature-Depth rosette with water bottles At the edge of the pack ice Off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) rosette and water sample bottles being deployed from "Baltic Room" on the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Drawing a water sample from Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) rosette water sample bottles. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Grinding and pressing crude spermaceti for removal of taut-pressed oil. Interior view of oil refinery. Filling bottles with sperm oil. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 200, Plate 14. Credit: Fisheries.

A secchi disk for observing ocean visibility; water sampling bottles; the water chemistry laboratory equipment; and bottles for studying subsurface currents. In: "L'Ocean" by J. Thoulet, 1904. Library Call Number GC11.T49 1904. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 51. Coupled bottle floats devised by Alfred Hautreux in 1893 for the study of currents in the Gulf of Gascogne. These bottles were deployed from various naval vessels in 1893 and 1894. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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This Rousseau restaurant, where so few bottles and so many pitchers were emptied, was rather an appeasant than a restorant

That came from the bottles on the shelves

He entered the store and walked to the shelves where the whisky bottles stood behind wire netting

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If you can, clean water bottles and ice trays yourself. (references)

Infants may require feeding tubes or special bottles to maintain sufficient nutrition. (references)

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

Business

Premium beers are packaged in smart, long-necked bottles and designed to be imbibed in upmarket establishments. (references)

The most popular sizes of bottles among imported beers are 330ml and 350ml. Kegs cannot be sold to the public directly and are only available to commercial buyers. (references)

The advantages to PET over aluminum are that PET bottles are unbreakable, resealable, a lighter weight which helps in lowering transport costs, and can also be recycled. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Police allege that the protesters turned violent, throwing bombs and bottles filled with acid at police. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

The increase in the consumption of juice drinks has accelerated demand for plastic bottles. (references)

Haiti

Haitian companies import mostly chemicals and inputs for producing plastic bottles and similar containers. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

In their investigation, police found fire arms, drugs, and bottles of liquor inside the facilities. (references)

Cuba

The crowd then went to the house of Manuel Melian, also a member of the National Transitional Council to Democracy, and threw stones and bottles at his house. (references)

Belize

After hours of negotiation, police and BDF personnel used tear gas in an attempt to clear the bridge, and protesters assaulted security personnel with rocks and bottles. (references)

Trade

Germany

Since the requested deposit is about three times as high as that requested for returnable beer bottles, it disadvantages imported drinks. (references)

Mauritius

Customs duties have also been reduced on several items, including infant feeding bottles, infant car seats and carriages, electric bicycles, magnetic tapes, rubberized textile fabrics, motor vehicle batteries and packing materials for industrial use. (references)

Bolivia

Samples and advertising materials are usually subject to regular duty rates, except those articles specifically prepared as samples -- for example, shoes cut in half, small patches of fabric and pharmaceutical products and liquors contained in small bottles clearly marked "free sample" ("muestra gratuita"). (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Pasteurized milk and milk products from sealed cartons or bottles are safe to consume, as are imported cheeses, butter, cream, and ice cream that has been adequately stored. (references)

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

Expressions using "BOTTLES": bottles carrier ♦ bottles case ♦ bottles rack ♦ new wine in old bottles ♦ put new wine into old bottles ♦ turntable for bottles of sparkling wine. Additional references.

Beginning with "BOTTLES": bottles-of-piss.

Ending with "BOTTLES": half-bottles, sauce-bottles, water-bottles.

Danish

gasledningen mellem de i termostat anbragte glasfrittevaskeflasker og kvartsroeret var forsynet med elektrisk modstandsopvarmning (the gas line between the thermostated fritted wash bottles and the quartz tube was provided with electrical resistance heating), CO2 blev maalt med et rotameter, foert via en blandedyse til tre vaskeflasker med glasfritte til maetning med vanddamp (CO2 was measured with a rotameter, fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles). (various references)

Dutch

het CO2 werd gemeten met een rotameter, stroomde door een mengkamer en werd in drie van fritfilters voorziene wasflessen met waterdamp verzadigd (CO2 was measured with a rotameter, fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles), draaitafel (tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), de gasleiding tussen de in een thermostaat geplaatste wasfles met fritfilter en de kwartsbuis is voorzien van weerstandsverwarming (the gas line between the thermostated fritted wash bottles and the quartz tube was provided with electrical resistance heating). (various references)

Finnish

vastuslämmitys (the gas line between the thermostated fritted wash bottles and the quartz tube was provided with electrical resistance heating), tourniquet (tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), sekoitussuutin (CO2 was measured with a rotameter, fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles), rotametri (CO2 was measured with a rotameter, fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles), kääntöpöytä (tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine). (various references)

French

tourniquet (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), porte-bouteilles (bottles carrier, bottles rack), panier à bouteilles (bottles case), le conduit de gaz reliant la pissette à verre fritté, placée dans un thermostat, au tube de quartz est muni d'une résistance de chauffage (the gas line between the thermostated fritted wash bottles and the quartz tube was provided with electrical resistance heating), l'anhydride carbonique a été mesuré à l'aide d'un rotamètre dirigé vers un gicleur et saturé de vapeur d'eau dans trois pissettes à verre fritté (fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles). (various references)

German

Flaschen (flagons). (various references)

Greek 

TOURNIQUET (tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), στροφείο (pintle, pivot, tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), περιστρεφόμενη τράπεζα (tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), το διοξείδιο του άνθρακα μετρήθηκε με ένα ροόμετρο,τροφοδοτήθηκε σε ένα ακροφύσιο ανάμειξης και κορέσθηκε με υδρατμούς σε τρεις πλυντη ρί� (fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles), ο αγωγός αερίου ανάμεσα στο θερμοστατημένες πλυντρίδες και πορώδη ύαλο και στο σωλήνα χαλαζία ήταν εφοδιασμένος με ηλεκτρική αντίσταση θέ (the gas line between the thermostated fritted wash bottles and the quartz tube was provided with electrical resistance heating). (various references)

Italian

tourniquet (tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), l'anidride carbonica fu misurata con un flussometro, condotta verso un ugello miscelatore e saturata di vapore in tre spruzzette di fritta (CO2 was measured with a rotameter, fed to a mixing nozzle and saturated with water vapour in three fritted wash bottles), la tubazione del gas fra le spruzzette di fritta termostatizzata e il tubo di quarzo è provvista di riscaldamento a resistenza elettrica (the gas line between the thermostated fritted wash bottles and the quartz tube was provided with electrical resistance heating). (various references)

Pig Latin

ottlesbay.(various references)

Portuguese

torniquete (reel, swivel, tourniquet, turnstile). (various references)

Spanish

las botellas. (various references)

Turkish

eski köye yeni adet (new wine in old bottles). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "BOTTLES": bluebottles, rebottles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BOTTLES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bitlis, Bitlisi, boatless, botels, botle, bottae, bottes, botties, bottl, bottla, Bottley, Gottleb, obtle, pottles. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: botels, bottle, lottes, obtest.

-2 letters: belts, besot, blest, blets, blots, boles, bolts, botel, botts, lobes, lotte, stole, telos, toles, totes.

-3 letters: bels, belt, best, bets, blet, blot, bole, bolt, bots, bott, lest, lets, lobe, lobs, lose, lost, lots, obes, oles, sett, slob, sloe, slot, sole, stet, stob, tels, test, tets, toes, tole, tost.

+1 letter: blotters, bottlers.

+2 letters: blottiest, librettos, outbleats, rebottles, spottable, stylobate, tabletops.

+3 letters: absolutest, betrothals, blotchiest, bottlefuls, bottomless, briolettes, buttonless, cobaltites, osteoblast, oubliettes, stylobates, subtotaled, trilobites.

+4 letters: bluebottles, bottlebrush, bottlenecks, buttonholes, catabolites, contestable, cuttlebones, ethambutols, letterbombs, metabolites, obliterates, obstetrical, obstinately, osteoblasts, stilbestrol, subtotalled, tablecloths, troubleshot.

+5 letters: battlefronts, battlewagons, bellybuttons, bottomlessly, buttonholers, contrastable, counterblast, erythroblast, footlamberts, jettisonable, notabilities, obliterators, osteoblastic, phlebotomist, potabilities, stilbestrols, thermostable, thunderbolts, tolbutamides, troubleshoot.