What's the difference between bottle and demijohn?

Bottle


Definition:

  • (n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
  • (n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
  • (n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
  • (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
  • (n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (2) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
  • (3) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
  • (4) However, amenorrheic women who introduced bottle feeding, had a higher risk of pregnancy after 6 months postpartum than those who remained fully nursing.
  • (5) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (6) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (7) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
  • (8) It is available as a 3.5 percent solution in 500 ml plastic bottles (Haemaccel) and in addition to the polygeline there is sodium, potassium, calcium and chloride ions.
  • (9) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
  • (10) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
  • (11) A gas chromatographic method is described for the quantification of levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in vinyl chloride polymer resins and in poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) bottles used in the packaging of foods.
  • (12) For each blood culture, 10 ml of venous blood was evenly inoculated into aerobic and anaerobic culture bottles and inoculated for 7 days using a radiometric system.
  • (13) The dissolution rate of the microcapsules was determined by the rotating-basket and rotating-bottle methods.
  • (14) Newborn nursery nursing staff members were surveyed to determine their attitudes and teaching practices regarding breast- and bottle-feeding.
  • (15) The Authors evaluate some parameters relative to the concentration of fluoride in the potable water and in that bottled available in the territory of the Ussl no.
  • (16) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
  • (17) Videos where I "down" a bottle of ketchup "for a laugh".
  • (18) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.51pm BST Asked whether Bayern might bottle it because of the expectation on them tonight, Thomas Muller shrugs and says: "Except for the game against Barcelona, there hasn't been a situation where Bayern weren't favourites."
  • (19) Given its timing, he wrote, the book "can't help being about the war", but then whisky had always been "up to its pretty bottle neck" in politics.
  • (20) In one case the outcome of labour was successful only moderate transfusion being required, and in the other the outcome was fatal despite the use of about 100 bottles of blood in the first 24 hours.

Demijohn


Definition:

  • (n.) A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stage 3 – fill the demijohn Now that the yeast has gained a strong hold over your must, we need to seal it away from dangerous oxygen – that which once fed your yeast could now ruin your wine.
  • (2) The sulphur dioxide released into the demijohn will kill the bacteria and also act as an antioxidant during bottling.
  • (3) Transfer your must to a sterile demijohn using a large funnel and an old but clean tea-towel to filter out the fruit pulp.
  • (4) If there is any space left in the demijohn, fill it up to just below the neck with clean water.
  • (5) To avoid this, transfer the wine to a new demijohn when there is 1-2 inches of sediment at the bottom.
  • (6) Over the next few months, exhausted yeast cells will sink to the bottom of your demijohn, forming a deposit known as "lees".
  • (7) Few things compare to the pleasure of sharing a glass of your homemade wine with your friends while plotting how you are going to fill your next demijohn.
  • (8) You can check the yeast has finished producing alcohol by moving the demijohn to a warm place for a few days to see if that wakes it up.
  • (9) When the demijohn is full put an airlock in the top; this will let the carbon dioxide escape but keep the oxygen out.

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