1) to form, produce a bottleneck
2) to be caught, trapped in a bottleneck
3) to eliminate a bottleneck
4) a bottleneck in
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
Bottleneck — en métal. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Bottleneck », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Un bottleneck est un tube souvent de verre ou de … Wikipédia en Français
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 — meaning a holdup or constriction in traffic, dates from the late 19c, and is now used more widely of obstructions in processes of various kinds. Care should be taken to avoid unsuitable elaboration of the image, as in curing or ironing out a… … Modern English usage
bottleneck — [bät′ lnek΄] n. 1. the neck of a bottle 2. any place, as a narrow road, where traffic is slowed up or halted 3. any point at which movement or progress is slowed up because much must be funneled through it [a bottleneck in production] adj. ☆… … English World dictionary
Bottleneck — Bot tle*neck 1. a location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded. [PJC] 2. a point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway. [PJC] 3. an impasse. [PJC] 4. a narrowing. Syn: constriction.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
bottleneck — ottleneck v. t. same as {obstruct}; as, his laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
bottleneck — ottleneck v. i. to become narrower as one approaches a point; said of roads; as, right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
bottleneck — index blockade (barrier) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
bottleneck — also bttle neck, narrow entrance, spot where traffic becomes congested, 1896; from BOTTLE (Cf. bottle) (n.) + NECK (Cf. neck) (n.). Meaning anything which obstructs a flow is from 1922; the verb in this sense is from 1928 … Etymology dictionary
bottleneck — [n] obstacle barrier, block, blockage, clog, congestion, hindrance, hold up, impediment, jam, obstruction, snag, traffic jam; concepts 470,532,666,674 … New thesaurus
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
