bottle

Robin Michael   Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:44 pm GMT
Bottle

What does this word in an expression mean to you?

Have you the bottle?


I always associate it with people being 'glassed'. That is, hit over the head with a bottle. But I am sure there are other meanings.


bottle - courage, balls. eg "he lost his bottle", "he bottled out", "he's got a lot of bottle". The most common explanation of this term is that it comes from the Rhyming Slang 'bottle and glass' - 'arse'. ie. To loose ones bottle, to loose ones arse (incontinence produced by fear).

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catsup/ketchup lover   Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:11 pm GMT
Example:

"I've been looking all over for the ketchup (catsup). Do you have the bottle?"
your gifts aren't appreci   Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:25 pm GMT
<<Bottle

What does this word in an expression mean to you?

Have you the bottle? >>


It means someone is looking for a bottle and is asking if someone else has it. A bottle is a glass/plastic container in which liquids are stored.

In case you were interested, here's some exiting information:


Bottle
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Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. Dated 16th century. From Iran. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chinese ding-ware porcelain bottle (far left) with iron-tinted pigment under a transparent colorless glaze, 11th century, Song Dynasty

A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth." Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminum or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink and chemicals. A device applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed an external bottle cap (closure) , or internal stopper. A bottle can also be sealed by a conductive "innerseal" by using induction sealing.

The bottle has developed a millennia of use, with some of the earliest examples appearing in China, Phoenicia, Rome and Crete. The Chinese used bottles to store liquids.

In modern times for some bottles a legally mandated deposit is paid, which is refunded after returning the bottle to the retailer. For other glass bottles there is often separate garbage collection for recycling.
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* 1 History
* 2 For wine
* 3 Codd-neck bottles
* 4 Plastic bottles
* 5 Aluminum bottles
* 6 Capsules
* 7 See also
* 8 References
* 9 External links

[edit] History

Since prehistoric times, bottle containers were created from clay or asphaltum sealed woven containers. Early glass bottles were produced by the Phoenicians; specimens of Phoenician translucent and transparent glass bottles have been found in Cyprus and Rhodes generally varying in length from three to six inches.[1] These Phoenician examples from the first millennium BC were thought to have been used for perfume.[2] The Romans learned glass-making from the Phoenicians and produced many extant examples of fine glass bottles, mostly relatively small.
[edit] For wine
Main article: Wine bottle
Reusable glass milk bottles
A Codd bottle.
A beer bottle
Bottles of Wine

The glass bottle was an important development in the history of wine, because, when combined with a high-quality stopper such as a cork, it allowed long-term aging of wine. Glass has all the qualities required for long-term storage. It eventually gave rise to "château bottling", the practice where an estate's wine is put in bottle at the source, rather than by a merchant. Prior to this, wine would be sold by the barrel (and before that, the amphora) and put into bottles only at the merchant's shop, if at all. This left a large and often abused opportunity for fraud and adulteration, as the consumer had to trust the merchant as to the contents. It is thought that most wine consumed outside of wine-producing regions had been tampered with in some way. Also, not all merchants were careful to avoid oxidation or contamination while bottling, leading to large bottle variation. Particularly in the case of port, certain conscientious merchants' bottling of old ports fetch higher prices even today. To avoid these problems, most fine wine is bottled at the place of production (including all port, since 1974).

There are many sizes and shapes of bottles used for wine. Some of the known shapes:

* "Bordeaux": This bottle is roughly straight sided with a curved "shoulder" that is useful for catching sediment and is also the easiest to stack. Traditionally used in Bordeaux but now worldwide, this is probably the most common type.
* "Burgundy": Traditionally used in Burgundy, this has sides that taper down about 2/3rds of the height to a short cylindrical section, and does not have a shoulder.
* "Champagne": Traditionally used for Champagne, it is similar to a Burgundy bottle, but with a wider base and heavier due to the pressurization.

[edit] Codd-neck bottles

In 1872, British soft drink maker Hiram Codd of Camberwell, south east London, designed and patented a bottle designed specifically for carbonated drinks. The Codd-neck bottle, as it was called, was designed and manufactured to enclose a marble and a rubber washer/gasket in the neck. The bottles were filled upside down, and pressure of the gas in the bottle forced the marble against the washer, sealing in the carbonation. The bottle was pinched into a special shape, as can be seen in the photo to the right, to provide a chamber into which the marble was pushed to open the bottle. This prevented the marble from blocking the neck as the drink was poured

Soon after its introduction, the bottle became extremely popular with the soft drink and brewing industries mainly in Europe, Asia and Australasia, though some alcohol drinkers disdained the use of the bottle. One etymology of the term codswallop originates from beer sold in Codd bottles.[3]

The bottles were regularly produced for many decades, but gradually declined in usage. Since children smashed the bottles to retrieve the marbles, they are relatively rare and have become collector items; particularly in the UK. A cobalt coloured Codd bottle today fetches thousands of British pounds at auction[citation needed]. The Codd-neck design is still used for the Japanese soft drink Ramune and in the Indian drink called Banta.
A PET bottle
[edit] Plastic bottles

Plastic bottles (e.g. two-liter) used for soft drinks can withstand typical internal carbonation pressures of 2–4 bar (30–60 psi.), because the plastic is strain oriented in the stretch blow molding manufacturing process.
[edit] Aluminum bottles
Main article: Aluminum bottle

The aluminum beverage bottle, launched in 2002, also known as a bottlecan, is made of recyclable aluminum with a resealable lug cap that fits onto a plastic sleeve. Some studies have concluded that aluminum provides for increased insulation keeping beverages cooler longer than glass.[citation needed]
[edit] Capsules

Some jars and bottles have a metal cap or cover called a capsule. They were historically made of lead, and protected the cork from being gnawed away by rodents or infested with cork weevil. Because of research showing that trace amounts of lead could remain on the lip of the bottle(NYT 2aug91), lead capsules (lead foil bottleneck wrappings) were slowly phased out, and by the 1990s(FDA 1992) most capsules were made of aluminum foil or plastic.
[edit] See also

* Carinate
* Plastic Bottles
* Concert bottling
* Glass Container Industry
* Reusing water bottles
* Bottle sling
* Bottle wall

[edit] References

1. ^ Perrot and Chipiez, Histoire de l'art, v iii, 734-744
2. ^ George Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia, 1889, Green Longmans publisher, 583 pages
3. ^ UK word origins

[edit] External links
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* Antique Bottles collectors/traders
* Corning Museum of Glass

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