Bottle vs Capsule - What's the difference?
bottle | capsule |
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
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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.
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(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.
(physiology) A membranous envelope.
(botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
(botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
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A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
(dialectal, UK, Suffolk) A weasel.
(attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
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(winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
(chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
As verbs the difference between bottle and capsule
is that bottle is to seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption also fig while capsule is .As a noun bottle
is a dwelling; habitation or bottle can be a container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.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.
Derived terms
* bottle upcapsule
English
Noun
(en noun)- The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis'', with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in ''Frullania spp.
- If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
