(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.
Dumpy
Definition:
(superl.) Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
(superl.) Sullen or discontented.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes are rather dumpy mice of approximately normal weight but with short limbs and tail.
(2) While the masculinization is blocked by mutations in sex determining genes required for male development (her-1 and fem-3), the lethality, dumpiness and overexpression of X-linked genes are not, indicating that the effect of sdc-2 mutations on sex determination and dosage compensation are ultimately implemented by two independent pathways.
(3) The nonmuscle mutations include dumpy and uncoordinated types that have no obvious direct effect on muscle organization.
(4) This wing shape resembles that of the mutant dumpy.
(5) Nixon’s wife has been described as “short and dumpy” and “burly in a beige jacket”.
(6) Double mutants constructed from rollers and dumpy mutants that are short and fat indicate dumpy phenotype is epistatic to roller.
(7) Twenty-eight independent sdc-2 mutations have no apparent effect in XO animals, but cause two distinct phenotypes in XX animals: masculinization, reflecting a defect in sex determination, and lethality or dumpiness, reflecting a disruption in dosage compensation.
(8) By mapping and complementation tests, we found that these suppressors are mutations of known dumpy (dpy) genes; dpy genes are required for development of normal body shape.
(9) A short, dumpy Londoner who was not, in the words of some who knew him, one of the world's greatest thinkers, Berjawi had been fighting for months in Somalia with al-Shabaab, the Islamist militant group.
(10) On the other hand, administration of these drugs to the mutant dumpy strain increases wing length, and flies with normal wings are obtained.
(11) I didn’t see dumpy 11-year-olds with basin haircuts.
(12) These data lend support to the thesis that (1) complete dumpy mutations of the olv and ov types are more frequently associated with chromosomal aberrations than those of the ol, lv, o, v and c types, and (2) fractional mutations and complete mutations of the (ol, lv, o, v, c) types are most probably point mutational events.
(13) The effectiveness of 14.1 MeV neutrons relative to 200 kV X-rays for the induction of the various kinds of dumpy mutation in mature sperm of Drosophila melanogaster was investigated.
(14) Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans dpy-13 (dumpy) gene result in a short, chunky body shape.
(15) Our results indicate that in dumpy and taxi mutants, there are no detectable modifications in the neural projections or in the number and morphology of sensory receptors.
(16) Mutant alleles of sqt-1 can interact to produce animals with a variety of mutant phenotypes: left roller, right roller, dumpy and long.
(17) Tests included those for sex-linked lethals, sex-linked visibles, a specific visible (dumpy), and translocations.
(18) Recessive and dominant epistasis of several dumpy mutations over the blistered phenotype was observed.
(19) Linden’s are dumpy, but she wears hers as a moral vest.
(20) The second short and dumpy cells are few in number and are after seen near the ostium.