{
    "term": "bottle",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/pa/packaging.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **wine/beer/milk/water bottle**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Put the top back on the bottle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plastic/glass bottle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "To open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He threw his **message in a bottle** into the North Sea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She filled the bottle with water."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a crowd of youths throwing bottles and stones"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several bags of broken glass bottles were collected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He threw his empty bottle in the recycling bin."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full", "empty", "broken"],
                "verb + bottle": ["fill", "empty", "open"],
                "bottle + noun": ["cap", "top", "opener"],
                "preposition": ["over a/​the bottle", "bottle of"],
                "phrases": ["be on the bottle", "hit the bottle", "take to the bottle"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the amount contained in a bottle",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We drank a whole bottle of wine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She handed me a bottle of water."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We washed the food down with a bottle of cheap red wine."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full", "empty", "broken"],
                "verb + bottle": ["fill", "empty", "open"],
                "bottle + noun": ["cap", "top", "opener"],
                "preposition": ["over a/​the bottle", "bottle of"],
                "phrases": ["be on the bottle", "hit the bottle", "take to the bottle"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "alcoholic drink",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "After his wife died, he really **hit the bottle** *(= started drinking heavily)*."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full", "empty", "broken"],
                "verb + bottle": ["fill", "empty", "open"],
                "bottle + noun": ["cap", "top", "opener"],
                "preposition": ["over a/​the bottle", "bottle of"],
                "phrases": ["be on the bottle", "hit the bottle", "take to the bottle"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's time for her bottle."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It took a lot of bottle to do that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "nerve",
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɒtl/",
                "audio": "bo/bottle/bottle__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɒtlfʊl/",
                "audio": "bo/bottle/bottleful__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɑːtl/",
                "audio": "bo/bottle/bottle__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɑːtlfʊl/",
                "audio": "bo/bottle/bottleful__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’."
}