<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.</li><li>The contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.</li><li>Bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.</li><li>The bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>Bottled, bottling: to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.</li><li>British: to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>To repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.</li><li>To enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.</li></ul>