bottleneck+(noun)

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• bottleneck — ► NOUN 1) the neck or mouth of a bottle. 2) a narrow section of road or a junction where traffic flow is restricted …   English terms dictionary

• bottleneck — bot‧tle‧neck [ˈbɒtlnek ǁ ˈbɑː ] noun [countable] a delay in one stage of a process that makes the whole process slower and more difficult: • He said the company would not be vulnerable to production bottlenecks because it has 10 subcontractors in …   Financial and business terms

• bottleneck guitar — noun see bottleneck II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bottleneck guitar — noun A technique of playing guitar by sliding a metal tube, or (originally) a glass bottleneck, along the guitar strings to alter the pitch. Syn: slide guitar …   Wiktionary

• bottleneck — noun A heavy traffic congestion. In Chicago the worst bottleneck is found where the Kennedy and the Eden s expressways separate on the way to the airport …   Словарь американских идиом

• bottleneck — noun (C) 1 a place in a road where the traffic cannot pass easily, so that there are a lot of delays 2 a delay in one stage of a process that makes the whole process take longer: Having only one person to do the clerical work has caused a real… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• bottleneck — noun there s a bottleneck at the intersection of I 91 and I 84 Syn: traffic jam, jam, congestion, tie up, holdup, snarl up, gridlock, logjam, constriction, narrowing, restriction, obstruction, blockage, choke point …   Thesaurus of popular words

• bottleneck guitar — noun see bottleneck IV …   Useful english dictionary

• bottleneck — noun 1》 a narrow section of road where traffic flow is restricted. 2》 a device worn on a guitarist s finger and used to produce sliding effects on the strings …   English new terms dictionary

• bottleneck — 1. noun a) The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck. b) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay. The …   Wiktionary

• bottleneck — I. adjective Date: 1896 narrow < bottleneck harbors > II. noun Date: 1907 1. a. a narrow route b. a point of traffic congestion 2. a. someone or something tha …   New Collegiate Dictionary