Mottled vs Bottled - What's the difference?
mottled | bottled |
Colored in patches; spotted
(mottle)
(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 mottled and bottled
is that mottled is past tense of mottle while bottled is past tense of bottle.As an adjective mottled
is colored in patches; spotted.mottled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.
Derived terms
* mottled duckVerb
(head)bottled
English
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.