Bottleneck vs Debottleneck - What's the difference?
bottleneck | debottleneck |
The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
To slow by causing a bottleneck.
To form a bottleneck.
In transitive terms the difference between bottleneck and debottleneck
is that bottleneck is to slow by causing a bottleneck while debottleneck is to free from bottlenecks.As a noun bottleneck
is the narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.bottleneck
English
(wikipedia bottleneck)Noun
(en noun)- It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck .
- The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
Verb
(en verb)- The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
- The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.