Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
neck of a bottle:
narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay:
part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
neck of a bottle:
narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay:

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.

    ruНехватка инженеров является самым узким местом в развитии нашей компании. — odexed

  2. Algiers has many traffic bottlenecks.

Meaning

4 senses
  1. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

    Flaschenhals

    го́рлышко буты́лкиgórlyško butýlki, го́рлышкоgórlyško

  2. (broadly, figuratively)The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome due to the lessening of available throughput.

    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.

    Engpass, Flaschenhals

    у́зкое ме́стоúzkoje mésto, про́бкаpróbka, зато́рzatór

  3. (figuratively)In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

    Engstelle, Flaschenhals, Engpass

    суже́ниеsužénije, у́зкий прохо́дúzkij proxód, у́зкое ме́стоúzkoje mésto

  4. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

    A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.

More definitions
  • a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
  • the narrow part of a bottle near the top

Forms

plural: bottlenecks
Singularbottleneck
Pluralbottlenecks

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
(figuratively)In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially…:chokepoint
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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