Vial vs. Bottle
Vial and Bottle Definitions
Vial
A small container, usually with a closure, used especially for liquids.
Bottle
A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
Vial
To put or keep in or as if in a vial.
Bottle
The quantity that a bottle holds.
Vial
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.
Bottle
A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
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Vial
(transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.
Bottle
Intoxicating liquor
Don't take to the bottle.
Vial
A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,And this distilled liquor drink thou off.
Bottle
The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor
Her problem is the bottle.
Vial
To put in a vial or vials.
Bottle
To place in a bottle.
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Vial
A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
Bottle
To hold in; restrain
Bottled up my emotions.
Bottle
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Beer is often sold in bottles.
Bottle
The contents of such a container.
I only drank a bottle of beer.
Bottle
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
The baby wants a bottle.
Bottle
(originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
You don’t have the bottle to do that!
He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
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Bottle
A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
Bottle
(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
Bottle
(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
To drown one’s troubles in the bottle
To hit the bottle
Bottle
A dwelling; habitation.
Bottle
A building; house.
Bottle
(transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
Bottle
To feed (an infant) baby formula.
Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
Bottle
To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
The rider bottled the big jump.
Bottle
To throw away a leading position.
Liverpool bottled the Premier League.
Bottle
To strike (someone) with a bottle.
He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
Bottle
To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
Bottle
Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
Bottle
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
Bottle
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
Bottle
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Bottle
A bundle, esp. of hay.
Bottle
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.
Bottle
Glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle
Bottle
The quantity contained in a bottle
Bottle
Store (liquids or gases) in bottles
Bottle
Put into bottles;
Bottle the mineral water
