bottleneck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From bottle + neck.
Compound parts: bottle
neck
Inflected forms:
form: bottlenecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bottlenecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bottlenecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bottlenecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bottlenecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
pos: noun
gloss: The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
pos: noun
gloss: In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
At one time, Reading was regarded as a notorious bottleneck in the rail network, almost incapable of managing the number of services that needed to pass through the station each day. [...]
 A road widening scheme at Cow Lane has also allowed two-way traffic to run beneath the railway for the first time, helping to remove a notorious road traffic bottleneck in the town.
gloss: The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
gloss: To slow by causing a bottleneck.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
gloss: To form a bottleneck.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
Derived words: antibottleneck
bottleneck guitar
bottleneck inflation
debottleneck
deuterium bottleneck
genetic bottleneck
population bottleneck
postbottleneck
prebottleneck
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عُنُق الزُّجَاجَة
roman: ʕunuq az-zujāja
lang: Bashkir
word: шешә ауыҙы
roman: şeşə awıźı
lang: Catalan
word: coll d'ampolla
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瓶頸 /瓶颈
roman: píngjǐng
lang: Czech
word: hrdlo lahve
lang: Danish
word: flaskehals
lang: Dutch
word: flessenhals
lang: Finnish
word: pullonkaula
lang: French
word: goulot
lang: French
word: goulot de bouteille
lang: French
word: tête de bouteille
lang: Galician
word: gorgozo
lang: German
word: Flaschenhals
lang: Hungarian
word: palacknyak
lang: Icelandic
word: flöskuháls
lang: Icelandic
word: stútur
lang: Irish
word: scrogall
lang: Irish
word: scrogall buidéil
lang: Italian
word: collo di bottiglia
lang: Japanese
word: 瓶の首
roman: bin no kubi
lang: Macedonian
word: грло на шише
roman: grlo na šiše
lang: Malay
word: cerutan
lang: Malay
word: kejejalan
lang: Mongolian
word: лонхны хүзүү
roman: lonxny xüzüü
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: flaskehals
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: flaskehals
lang: Polish
word: szyjka
lang: Portuguese
word: gargalo
lang: Russian
word: го́рлышко буты́лки
roman: górlyško butýlki
lang: Russian
word: го́рлышко
roman: górlyško
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: грлић
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: grlić
lang: Spanish
word: cuello de botella
lang: Swedish
word: flaskhals
lang: Uyghur
word: جوغا
roman: jogha