ALL meanings of bottleneck
bot·tle·neck
B b - countable noun bottleneck A bottleneck is a situation that stops a process or activity from progressing. 3
- noun bottleneck a narrow stretch of road or a junction at which traffic is or may be held up 3
- noun bottleneck the hold-up 3
- noun bottleneck something that holds up progress, esp of a manufacturing process 3
- noun bottleneck the broken-off neck of a bottle placed over a finger and used to produce a buzzing effect in a style of guitar-playing originally part of the American blues tradition 3
- noun bottleneck the style of guitar-playing using a bottleneck 3
- verb bottleneck to be or cause an obstruction in 3
- noun bottleneck the neck of a bottle 3
- noun bottleneck any place, as a narrow road, where traffic is slowed up or halted 3
- noun bottleneck any point at which movement or progress is slowed up because much must be funneled through it 3
- adjective bottleneck designating or of a style of playing blues guitar in which notes and chords are formed by stopping a string or strings with a broken-off glass bottleneck, knife blade, etc. 3
- verb transitive bottleneck to act as a bottleneck in 3
- countable noun bottleneck A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams. 3
- noun bottleneck a narrow entrance or passageway. 1
- noun bottleneck a place or stage in a process at which progress is impeded. 1
- noun bottleneck Also called slide guitar. a method of guitar playing that produces a gliding sound by pressing a metal bar or glass tube against the strings. 1
- verb with object bottleneck to hamper or confine by or as if by a bottleneck. 1
- verb without object bottleneck to become hindered by or as if by a bottleneck. 1
- noun bottleneck overcrowding in narrow area 1
- noun bottleneck guitar: device used to create buzzing sound 1
- noun bottleneck music: slide guitar technique 1
- intransitive verb bottleneck become narrower or obstructed 1
- noun bottleneck The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. 0
- noun bottleneck In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay. 0
- noun bottleneck Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome. 0
- verb bottleneck (Transitive Verb) To slow by causing a bottleneck. 0
- verb bottleneck (Intransitive Verb) To form a bottleneck. 0