Amphora vs. Bottle — What's the Difference?

An amphora (; Ancient Greek: ἀμφορεύς, amphoreús; English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea. The size and shape have been determined from at least as early as the Neolithic Period.

A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (clay, glass, plastic, aluminium etc.) in various shapes and sizes to store and transport liquids (water, milk, beer, wine, ink, cooking oil, medicine, soft drinks, shampoo, and chemicals, etc.) and whose mouth at the bottling line can be sealed with an internal stopper, an external bottle cap, a closure, or a conductive "inner seal" using induction sealing. Some of the earliest bottles appeared in China, Phoenicia, Crete, and Rome.

A two-handled jar with a narrow neck used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to carry wine or oil.

A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.

A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.

The quantity that a bottle holds.

(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 80 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 26 L although differing slightly over time.

A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.

(historical) A Roman unit of ship capacity, similar to tonnage.

Intoxicating liquor

(botany) A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.

The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

To place in a bottle.

An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine

To hold in; restrain

A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

The contents of such a container.

A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

(originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.

A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

A dwelling; habitation.

A building; house.

(transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

To feed (an infant) baby formula.

To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

To throw away a leading position.

To strike (someone) with a bottle.

To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

A bundle, esp. of hay.

To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

Glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle

The quantity contained in a bottle

Store (liquids or gases) in bottles

Put into bottles;