Battled vs Bottled - What's the difference?
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(battle)
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Fertile; fruitful.
To nourish; feed.
To render fertile or fruitful, as in soil.
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
A struggle; a contest.
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*(rfdate) (Henry Morley) (1822-1894):
*:The whole intellectual battle that had at its centre the best poem of the best poet of that day.
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*:In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages—with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
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*:Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.
A division of an army; a battalion.
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*:THenne kyng Arthur made redy his hoost in x batails' and Nero was redy in the felde afore the castel Tarabil with a grete hoost / & he had x ' batails with many mo peple than Arthur had
*(rfdate) (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626):
*:The king divided his army into three battles .
*(rfdate) (1721-1793):
*:The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle , and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 634:
*:‘I will have more than twelve thousand men. I mean to divide them into three battles and start up the causeway a half-day apart.’
(label) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
:(Hayward)
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To assail in battle; to fight or struggle.
(bottle)
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
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, title= The contents of such a container.
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
(British, informal) Nerve, courage.
(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.
(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
* End of the 14th century , (The Canterbury Tales), by (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),
* 1590s , , by (Christopher Marlowe)
(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
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(British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
(British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
(British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
(British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
As verbs the difference between battled and bottled
is that battled is (battle) while bottled is (bottle).battled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*battle
English
Etymology 1
From Early Modern English .Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- battle''' grass'', '''''battle pasture
- battle''' soil'', '''''battle land
Derived terms
*Verb
(battl)Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from ). Displaced native (etyl) .Alternative forms
* batailNoun
(en noun)Clive James 'near the end' in cancer 'battle , ITV News, 21 June 2012:
Synonyms
* conflict * encounter * contest * actionDerived terms
* battlearray * battlefield * battleground / battle ground * battle of the sexes * battle piece * battle royal * battle song * do battle * drawn battle * fight a losing battle * give battle * join battle * pitched battle * wager of battleVerb
(battl)- She has been battling against cancer for years .
- She has been battling cancer for years .
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* *bottled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*bottle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bottle, botle, buttle, from (etyl) botl, .Etymology 2
(etyl) and (etyl) boteille (Modern French bouteille), from buttis.Alternative forms
* botl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle —and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
- Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.
- DON PEDRO. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.
- BENEDICK. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
- I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.
Synonyms
* (for feeding babies) baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US) * (courage) balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluckAntonyms
* (courage) cowardiceDerived terms
* bottle bank * bottle blonde * bottlebrush * bottleneck * bottlenose * bottle opener, bottle-opener * bottle out * bottle sling * bottletop * bottle-washer * hit the bottle * Klein bottle * lightning in a bottleDescendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),See also
* flagon * flask * jarVerb
(bottl)- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.