It's a story of a very English glamour: of leopard-print chairs, flock carpets, diamonds, heavy décolletage and bottle-blonde hair.BritishToday she's milky white in the London sunshine, bottle-blonde hair cropped and quiffed, a palisade of lashes guarding ice-blue eyes.Britishnouna person with dyed or bleached blonde hair [typically used of a woman]a bottle blonde who winks at the cameraExamplesI think I took in most of the information, despite being a bottle blonde, but there was something which was distracting me.BritishA bottle blonde with a tan leaning toward that cured leather look, she had the unmistakable aura of a woman who had, on more than one occasion, awakened in an unfamiliar bed wearing some cowboy's shirt.North American
bottle episode
also bottle shownounan episode of a television show that is written so that it requires only one set or scene and a limited number of cast membersby enforced constraint, bottle episodes end up producing some of the best drama
word origin
early 21st century: origin uncertain; perhaps from ship in a bottle or bottle up [referring to the constrained nature of bottle episodes]
bottle bank
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UK /ˈbɒtl baŋk/noun [British English] a place where used glass bottles may be deposited for recyclingExamplesEvery weekend my husband and I go shopping at the Savacentre and since last year it has been littered with rubbish, the bins are never emptied and there is smashed glass everywhere from the bottle bank.BritishAll my waste paper is collected by Halton Scout Group, all my glass goes to the bottle bank and all my old clothes go to charity shops or the bank at Salt Ayre.BritishThere are many half-hearted environmentalists out there who [at least claim they] would like to help, but who at the end of the day can't be bothered to take their glass to a bottle bank.BritishMrs Brasier, a nursing auxiliary, already uses her recycling box for papers but takes empty bottles to a bottle bank.British
bottle jack
nouna large jack used for lifting heavy objectsExamplesThe bus was jacked up and supported by a 12-ton bottle jack that was placed under the differential.North AmericanLike the bottle jacks, these did not require pulleys or belts, as the spit was attached directly to the gears.North AmericanOn top of the hydraulic bottle jack is a nice scrap of 1’ thick steel plate.North AmericanTake a glance around just about any tire shop and you'll find a group of bottle jacks sitting in a corner or in a tool bin collecting dust.North AmericanExceptional quality of service floor jacks, bottle jacks, transmission jacks, rams, jack stands and other equipment leave no doubt about the choice.North American
bottle-o
also bottle-ohnoun [Australian and New Zealand English, informal] 1. a shop selling alcoholic drink for consumption elsewhereI went to the bottle-o to buy him a six packExamplesThe drink is available at all good bottle-os, and even at the Melbourne Uni bar.AustralianAt 9pm we all met up before the night out and immediately went to the drive thru bottle-o.Australian2. a dealer in used bottlesthe bottle-o brought around his truck, counted them, and handed over the doshExamplesAs a veteran Sydney bottle-o, the concept of bottle recycling has certainly not incurred my wrath.AustralianShe hated being a bottle-oh. "Don't screw up your nose, Pen. It's for an important cause. And we need heaps of bottles, so you can't just hang around the picnic tables here."Australian
bottle party
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UK /ˈbɒtl pɑːti/noun [British English] a party to which guests bring bottles of drinkExamplesThe 1920s, self-evidently, were the era of the bottle party and the Bright Young Things, the Charleston and the shimmy, cigarette holders and mock Tudor.BritishAnd it evokes the period of the eighties, the times of bottle parties and slow-dance.BritishSuddenly, in the face of job searches and grad school applications, Greek Week and bottle parties just didn't seem very important, and so they quit.North AmericanTwo hundred M. P.s signed a motion in the House of Commons ‘deploring bottle parties.’BritishThis was later converted to ‘bachelors quarters’, presumably when the more sedate members objected to the noise of the young bloods’ bottle parties, after the bar had closed.AustralianThese were not night clubs as we know them today; these were bottle parties.British
bottle tree
noun1. either of two Australian trees with swollen bottle-shaped trunks containing waterExamplesNot wanting to be seen, she ducked behind a bottle tree, peering suspiciously into the car.North American85 years ago, the people of Roma planted a series of bottle trees, each one marking a local soldier who had died during World War One.Australian2. the Australian baobab of the Kimberley region [Adansonia gregorii, family Bombacaceae]3. a relative of the flame tree occurring in Queensland [Brachychiton rupestre, family Sterculiaceae]
bottle shop
also bottle storenoun [Australian and New Zealand English, South African English] another term for off-licenceExamplesWhat there was, was a job serving in the bottle shop - ‘a kind of drive-in off licence’ - attached to one of the pubs.BritishWe should not blame the guy who is rushed off his feet in a hotel bottle store, or the bottle store owner who makes a mistake because a 17-year-old comes who looks 25.New ZealandNgcingwane, who owns three supermarkets, a garage and a bottle store, was asleep when the men broke in through the kitchen door and windows.South AfricanKazmaier said the mall was close to becoming the number one shopping centre in Windhoek, once more attractions like a bottle store are added.South African
bottle-feed
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UK /ˈbɒtlfiːd/verb [with object] feed [a baby] with milk from a feeding bottlewe still bottle-feed her[no object] if you bottle-feed, make sure your baby is sitting upright while drinkingExamplesDiana was surprised when doctors asked her whether she would be breast- or bottle-feeding her new baby.North AmericanAccording to Emerling, breast-fed babies and bottle-fed babies grow differently.East AsianIf your baby is bottle-fed, follow the same process, i.e., interrupt feeding and make your baby burp at least twice or thrice while feeding.North AmericanMost babies are bottle-fed, but some mothers still breast-feed their babies until the first teeth appear.North American
in bottle
bottle noun[of wine] having been aged for a specified number of years in its bottlethe wine can be drunk after eight years in bottleExamplesDespite this perception, experience shows many wines which age in bottle with substantial ullage exhibit no signs of oxidation.BritishMaybe this is an age thing, too - maybe that slight herbaceousness will factor out after the wine rests a few months in bottle.North AmericanIt is also fairly tannic, and right now the wine is a bit disjointed, indicating it could use another one to three years in bottle.North AmericanHard, tannic and even stern in youth, these reds need many years in bottle to show their best.North American
bottle out
bottle noun[British English, informal] lose one's nerve and decide not to do somethingonce I'd volunteered there was no way I'd bottle outthe Minister has bottled out of real reforms
bottle age
noun [mass noun] time spent by a wine maturing in its bottleExamplesOnly after two or more years of bottle age will a fine Meursault or Puligny-Montrachet start to show the quality of the fruit.BritishMy palate is yearning for some complex, complicated wines with some bottle age.North AmericanHowever, for the more complex Pinot Grigio wines listed below, two or three years of bottle age will reward you with a more interesting and multi-layered wine.North AmericanNo, these wines would not blow away the jaded palates of wine judges today, but they were balanced wines that developed nice complexity after a few years of bottle age.North AmericanGood easy-drinking summer style which could benefit from further bottle age 1 to 2 years.New ZealandAfter another four months of bottle age, Kurni is ready for sale.North American
bottle feeding
noun [mass noun] the action of feeding a baby with milk from a feeding bottle80% of dads help with the bottle feeding
bottle green
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UK /ˈbɒtl ɡriːn/noun [mass noun] dark greena classic autumnal palette of bottle green, burgundy, black, and grey[as modifier] a bottle green uniformExamplesAnd when did the Irish switch from emerald green to bottle green?BritishIn my surprised state I noted that his lime green hair matched my bottle green carpet perfectly.North AmericanThe famous problem of insufficient bottle-green uniforms for the first of the new men resulted in the name that stuck, even among themselves: the Black and Tans.IrishI'll never forget being likened to a librarian by a former boss, as I breezed about the office in my calf-length brown checked skirt, bottle-green jumper and black button-to-the-neck cardie.British
Coke-bottle
noun [as modifier] [North American English, informal] denoting very thick lenses for glasses, or glasses with such lensesExamplesJillie took in the thick Coke-bottle glasses, the dark hair that went every which way but down.North AmericanIn high school I took driver's ed from a guy who wore Coke-bottle glasses and blasted gospel music as we swerved and veered in his Chevy Celebrity.North AmericanPut away the geeky guy with Coke-bottle glasses and a pocket protector stereotype: turns out that more women than men are playing online games.North AmericanYou can almost hear his Coke-bottle glasses fogging up with fear.North American
bottle-fed
adjective[of a baby] fed with milk from a feeding bottlethe incidence of colic in breastfed and bottle-fed infants is similar
bottle up
bottle noun1. bottle something up , bottle up somethingrepress or conceal feelings over timehis anger and frustration had been bottled up for yearsbottled-up [as adjective] Lily's bottled-up fury2. bottle someone up , bottle up someonekeep someone or something trapped or confinedhe had to stay bottled up in New York
hit the bottle
bottle noun [informal] start to drink alcohol heavilyhis marriage broke up and he hit the bottleExamplesShe suffered from manic depression, and when she died after a long illness, Bellany - always fond of the drink - hit the bottle with venom.British‘It was like an alcoholic hitting the bottle again,’ Raihala said.BritishThe significant jump in the number of women who are dying from alcohol-related illness proves that more and more women are hitting the bottle.IrishAnd I've been hitting the bottle in the evenings to help me get by.British
crack open a bottle
also crack a bottlecrack nounopen a bottle, especially of wine, and drink from ithe likes to crack open a bottle of wine with his friendsExamplesAt least the achievements gave middle England an excuse to stay up late and crack a bottle of Chardonnay.BritishThere is always something to celebrate, always a reason to crack a bottle.North AmericanShe cracked a bottle of beer and poured it over.Australian
baby bottle
nouna bottle fitted with a nipple for giving milk and other drinks to babies and very young childrenthe 10-month-old clung on to his baby bottle
feeding bottle
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UK /ˈfiːdɪŋ ˌbɒt[ə]l/noun [British English] a bottle fitted with a teat for giving milk or other drinks to babies and very young childrenExamplesIt is a multi-purpose machine used to sterilize babies' feeding bottles, boil eggs, vegetables or milk, make instant soup or even clean jewellery to restore its past glory.IndianDiana asked and moments later, a warm feeding bottle full of baby formula was handed to her by Becky.North AmericanThe feeding bottle plays the opposite role of breast milk.IndianBjorn measures milk powder and water into a feeding bottle.Indian
Klein bottle
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UK /ˈklʌɪn ˌbɒtl/noun [Mathematics] a closed surface with only one side, formed by passing one end of a tube through the side of the tube and joining it to the other endExamplesGluing the top of the Möbius band to the bottom would give you a compact Klein bottle, a complicated shape that is impossible to draw properly in three dimensions.BritishThe Klein bottle is a very precise mathematical construct.British
word origin
1940s: named after Felix Klein [1849–1925], the German mathematician who first described it
milk bottle
nouna bottle for milk, typically a glass bottle holding one pint [0.473 litre]old-fashioned returnable glass milk bottlesExamplesI put the empty milk bottles out last night.BritishWe had dozens of empty milk bottles in the kitchen.BritishA number of milk bottle crates fell on top of him, covering him in broken glass.BritishA 2-litre milk bottle with the top cut out, leaving the handle on, makes an excellent scoop to empty baths, troughs etc.Australian
smelling bottle
noun [mainly historical] a small bottle containing smelling salts or perfumeExamplesIn Paris they put in a number of nick-nacks, little almanacks, smelling bottles with essences, and even things of value for presents.BritishSmall blown smelling bottles with applied rigaree and trailed embellishments were also popular at this time.North AmericanIts scale and horizontal placement brings to mind those first American-made pungent smelling bottles, but the elegance of the design is more like that of a piece of fine jewelry.North AmericanSo great grew the excitement, that women were carried out fainting, smelling bottles were handed round, while sobs and even screams were heard on every side.BritishHandkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard: and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit.North American
squeeze bottle
nouna container made of flexible plastic which is squeezed to extract the contentsExamplesPutting jelly in a plastic squeeze bottle will prevent crosscontact with peanut butter.North AmericanHe mopped his face with a towel and moved to a bench where Tracy was already seated, drinking water out of a plastic squeeze bottle.North AmericanSometimes you even put it in a squeeze bottle so you don't have to keep heaving the can out from under the sink.North AmericanA squeeze bottle of water and a bucket, obviously for waste elimination, were nearby, and there was a thick pad of foam insulation for him to lay on.North AmericanThat was the case at Royal Japan, where a salty-sweet soy baste applied from a squeeze bottle wound up on everything, from slightly overcooked shrimp to faintly mealy, medium-rare cubes of filet mignon.North American
wash bottle
noun [Chemistry] 1. a bottle, typically plastic, with a nozzle for directing a stream of liquid on to somethingExamplesPetri dishes were placed in a growth room at 15°C with a PPFD of 450 mol m - 2 s - 1 for 20 d with further distilled water added on alternate days using a wash bottle.BritishFood was delivered in a wash bottle to train test subjects to investigate surface disturbance.North American2. a bottle containing liquid through which gases are passed for purification
wine bottle
nouna glass bottle for wine, the standard size holding 75 cl or 262/3 fl. ozExamplesOne can approach reading a German Wine bottle differently than one reads a French wine bottle.North AmericanMost people know that the standard wine bottle is 75 cl in volume, and that a magnum is 1.5 litres or two bottles.IrishAfter knocking over an empty wine bottle and a glass onto the carpet, he switches on the bedside lamp and gasps.North AmericanGathering up their glasses and the wine bottle they made their way down the steps to the waiting hot tub.North AmericanAnd lastly, water is essential for maintaining bowel regularity. Without it, waste matter in the colon can tend to get dry and stuck, a bit like cork in the neck of a wine bottle.BritishAs binning and storing wine became commonplace during the course of the 18th century, the wine bottle evolved into the cylindrical shape we know today.British
brandy-bottle
nounthe common yellow water lily, the flowers of which produce an alcoholic smell which is attractive to beetlesExamplesThe English sometimes call the plant "brandy bottle" because the flowers smell like stale wine which attracts flies, the pollinators for the plant.Deep-water aquatics like the brandy-bottle and many types of water lily are easy to grow and there are lots to choose from.BritishIf lilies are a bit too big, or just not your thing, then the Water Fringe and the Brandy bottle are good alternatives, both with yellow flowers.BritishNative water lilies [with yellow blooms] flower in the summer and produce 'brandy bottle' seeds in the winter.North American
half-bottle
nouna bottle that is half the standard sizeExamplesAverage yields are minuscule once the grapes have been raisined, but the results are luscious in the extreme, and are invariably bottled in a half-bottle.BritishThey balance this against dispersion: half-bottles may go where full bottles do not, or go first.North American‘I only made 400 half-bottles,’ Eymael sighed, ‘and I've already poured three today.’North American‘It is an intimate bar featuring half-bottles of wines and a full bar for primarily the Air France passengers,’ Jones said.North AmericanI plan to drink a little Santorini Sigala, the dry Greek white, and imbibe my small annual quota of pine-pitch-flavored retsina from a convenient half-bottle.North AmericanThe closest I have come to going on a bender in the past fortnight was when, while making a broccoli and Camembert soup, I forgot to cook off the alcohol from the half-bottle of white wine that went into it.British
bottlebrush
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UK /ˈbɒtlbrʌʃ/noun1. a cylindrical brush for cleaning inside bottlesExamplesWith a clean bottlebrush and hot soapy water, thoroughly clean the bottles and other items.BritishUse a clean bottlebrush to scrub out pipes and tubes.British2. an Australian shrub or small tree with spikes of scarlet or yellow flowers which resemble bottlebrushesGenus Callistemon, family MyrtaceaeExamplesNeighbour Ian Kinny, whose memorial garden along with a gum tree, bottlebrush and shrubs were destroyed, described the impact of the attack as ‘extremely cruel’.AustralianThis appealing, diminutive shrub blooms in spring with honey-scented flowers that look like bottlebrushes, and they are hummingbird magnets!North American▪any of a number of plants bearing flowers similar to those of the bottlebrushExamplesMelaleucas and bottlebrushes make excellent screening plants, stand-alone specimens and accents among other native species such as banksias and grevilleas.AustralianAtop City Hall in Toronto, downtown workers watch butterflies and birds loiter among native plants like bottlebrush grass, eastern columbines, grey-headed coneflowers and New Jersey tea bushes.North American
be full bottle on
bottle noun [Australian and New Zealand English, informal] be very knowledgeable aboutthey are full bottle on the tricks the industry gets up toExamplesWant to sound like a full bottle on foreign policy?AustralianNo doubt some of us are full bottle on revisionist history since the fall of the wall but not, alas, me.AustralianWe were a full bottle on anything that might cause our respective broadcasters or publishers any embarrassment or worse—legal action.AustralianWe go to the man who should be full bottle on these strange products.Australian
Woulfe bottle
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UK /wʊlf/noun [Chemistry] a glass bottle with two or more necks, used for passing gases through liquidsExamplesTwo Woulfe bottles, each containing three liters of Modified CW medium with 0.3 g ion-exchange resin, were inoculated with a seed suspension of B. pertussis prepared as described in Example 1.North AmericanThe second Woulfe bottle and the receiver must each be provided with a siphon safety tube charged with a very short column of mercury.North AmericanConnect the flask at once, by means of corks, glass tubes and rubber stoppers, with a Woulfe bottle of the capacity of 500 CcNorth American
word origin
early 19th century: named after Peter Woulfe [c.1727–1803], English chemist
chief cook and bottle washer
chief noun [informal] a person who performs a wide variety of routine but important taskswhen you are the chief cook and bottle washer in a new small business it tests your time management skillsExamplesIn addition, every article thus far has banged on about the so-called great folk music revival, of which he, as chief cook and bottle-washer of the Fence Collective, is a key player.BritishAn old woman in a small Ontario town looks back on her life as chief cook and bottle-washer for a well heeled Anglo family.Canadian
bottlenose dolphin
also bottle-nosed dolphinnouna stout-bodied dolphin with a distinct short beak, found in tropical and temperate coastal watersTursiops truncatus, family DelphinidaeExamplesThey have a pronounced bulbous melon that slopes smoothly into a long tube-like beak similar to that of a bottlenose dolphin.North AmericanNot long ago in Shark Bay, off the coast of western Australia, a female bottlenose dolphin broke a chunk of sponge off the seafloor and wore it as a mask over her snout while she probed the sediment for fish.North AmericanNobody knows how long a sperm whale can hold its breath - or a bottlenose dolphin either, for that matter.North AmericanJust look at the bottlenose dolphin; this species of dolphin does not form male-female couples, but rather males form lifelong pairs with other males.Canadian
bottlenose whale
also bottle-nosed whalenouna beaked whale of variable colour, with a bulbous foreheadGenus Hyperoodon, family Ziphiidae: two speciesExamplesSo the ultimate would be to put this on a sperm whale or a bottlenose whale or something like that.AustralianI realized that the bottlenose whale in the Tropics was not the southern bottlenose whale.North AmericanThe link was forged - our tropical bottlenose whale was indeed Longman's long-lost whale!North AmericanResults of an autopsy on the bottlenose whale, which didn't survive a last-ditch rescue operation, were released today.North American
let the genie out of the bottle
also the genie is out of the bottlegenie nounused in reference to doing or allowing something which leads to consequences that cannot be undoneonce you let the Open Source genie out of the bottle, it will be impossible to get it back inthe facial recognition genie is out of the bottle and is very unlikely to be stuffed back in
word origin
from stories associated with the Arabian Nights: in one, Aladdin summons two genies by rubbing a ring and an old lamp; in another, a fisherman finds an old jar or bottle and accidentally releases a malevolent genie, which he eventually manages to trick into returning to the jar
bluebottle
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UK /ˈbluːˌbɒtl/noun1. a common blowfly with a metallic-blue body, the female of which often comes into houses searching for a suitable food source on which to lay her eggsCalliphora vomitoria, family Calliphoridae2. [Australian English, South African English] the Portuguese man-of-war
word origin
so named because of its blue-tinged float3. [British English] the wild cornflower4. [British English, informal, dated] a police officer
hot-water bottle
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UK /hɒtˈwɔːtə ˌbɒtl/[US English] hot-water bagnouna flat, oblong container, typically made of rubber, that is filled with hot water and used for warmth, especially for warming a bedExamplesEarly in 1929, Dorothy accidentally burned Jane with a hot-water bottle.North AmericanUse a hot-water bottle, or warm a sock filled with grain or flaxseed heated to a comfortably warm temperature in the microwave or oven.North AmericanWe're warm now, and hot-water bottles are no more.BritishFrom time to time, someone would bring me a hot-water bottle.British
thermos
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UK /ˈθəːməs/also thermos flask , [US English] thermos bottlenoun [trademark] a vacuum flaskExamplesThese include her passport, money belt and traveler's checks; pens, notebooks and maps; a Thermos, mug and knife.Their plastic cups came from visitors from a mosque in Swindon who arrived one afternoon with Thermoses of sweet tea and samosas still warm from the oven.BritishOn the stage is a lectern, a leather armchair, a potted palm and a table with a Thermos flask: enter the speaker in a beige cardigan.
2 fl oz là bao nhiêu ml?
Bảng quy đổi từ đơn vị oz sang đơn vị ml.
2 fl oz nghĩa là gì?
Fl Oz là viết tắt của “Fluid Ounce” hay “Ounce chất lỏng”. Fl Oz được sử dụng phổ biến tại Mỹ, châu Âu và một vài nước châu Á. Đây là một dạng “ounce biến thể” dùng đo thể tích chất lỏng như là: rượu vang, bia, nước hoa,...
8 fl oz là bao nhiêu ml?
Bảng quy chuẩn quốc tế để quy đổi từ đơn vị oz sang ml.
Dung tích oz là gì?
Ounces được viết tắt là Oz, là một đơn vị đo lường quốc tế có định lượng là 28.34 gr [chính xác là 28.3495231]. Đơn vị này được dùng để chỉ các định lượng như thể tích, khối lượng, trọng lượng và lực. Trong lĩnh vực pha chế, đồ uống hiểu đầy đủ Oz là Ounces lỏng [ký hiệu fl oz].