English Explanatory Dictionary

bottleneck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
  2. A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
  3. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
  4. The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
verb
  1. To slow by causing a bottleneck.
  2. To form a bottleneck.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

bottleneck bottlenecks bottlenecking bottlenecked

Etymology

From bottle + neck.

Synonyms

chokepoint

Derived words

antibottleneck bottleneck guitar bottleneck inflation debottleneck deuterium bottleneck genetic bottleneck population bottleneck postbottleneck prebottleneck

Translations

Arabic: عُنُق الزُّجَاجَة Bashkir: шешә ауыҙы Catalan: coll d'ampolla Chinese Mandarin: 瓶頸 /瓶颈 Czech: hrdlo lahve Danish: flaskehals Dutch: flessenhals Finnish: pullonkaula French: goulot French: goulot de bouteille French: tête de bouteille Galician: gorgozo German: Flaschenhals Hungarian: palacknyak Icelandic: flöskuháls Icelandic: stútur Irish: scrogall Irish: scrogall buidéil Italian: collo di bottiglia Japanese: 瓶の首 Macedonian: грло на шише Malay: cerutan Malay: kejejalan Mongolian: лонхны хүзүү Norwegian Bokmål: flaskehals Norwegian Nynorsk: flaskehals Polish: szyjka Portuguese: gargalo Russian: го́рлышко буты́лки Russian: го́рлышко Serbo-Croatian: грлић Serbo-Croatian: grlić Spanish: cuello de botella Swedish: flaskhals Uyghur: جوغا
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