Link Centre Dictionary

bottleneck

bott·le·neck

US/ˈbɑtʌˌlnɛk/ rare
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

Synonyms

verb

1.

slow down or impede by creating an obstruction

  • “His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system”
2.

become narrow, like a bottleneck

  • “Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks”

Origin

From bottle + neck.

Phrases

  • bottleneck guitar
  • bottleneck inflation
  • deuterium bottleneck
  • genetic bottleneck
  • population bottleneck

Related words

Word family

Broader terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.